The Twitter competitor Gab.com targeted by payment processors

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publicerad 3 oktober 2018
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Andrew Torba GAB founder. Photo: InfoWars.com
Andrew Torba GAB founder. Photo: InfoWars.com
Andrew Torba GAB founder. Photo: InfoWars.com

The US social networking service called GAB, that work along the same principles as Twitter, has been hit with certain demands from two payment services Paypal and Stripe. GAB was created as an alternative to Twitter and promotes itself as supporting free speech. It allows its users to read and write messages of up to 300 characters, called ”gabs”. Now GAB seemed to be targeted.

By the GAB team, extracted from their latest newsletter

It’s interesting how we’ve never had any issues with either of our payment processors for over two years now, but all of a sudden when Gab.com is the only platform on the internet to host Alex Jones and defend free expression for all people, we become the target.


In the last two weeks both of our payment processors have threatened to or have frozen our service. This is why we are crowdfunding from You, The People, to build our own free speech-friendly infrastructure.


Paypal did not terminate our service–yet

They threatened to a few weeks ago over a meme from 2012 called ”Navy Seal Copypasta.” They took the meme literally like idiots who know nothing at all about basic internet culture. We refused to censor the meme because the context and intent were very clear. We have not heard back since we told them this 11 days ago and our account is still active as of now.

Stripe, our other payment processor, is demanding quote:

”Modification of your terms of service to indicate that adult or illegal content cannot be streamed through GabTV or otherwise distributed through the Gab service.
The implementation of reasonable controls to ensure that no adult or illegal content is being streamed through GabTV or otherwise available on the Gab service.”

Both of these make no sense because we already do not allow any illegal content and take action against it. Further, any adult content must be marked as NSFW (Not Safe For Work) per our user guidelines, which is a similar feature that Reddit and others have for adult content on their site. Stripe has no problem working with Facebook, Pinterest, and Squarespace, all of which certainly have adult content if you go looking for it.

We will keep fighting to break free from Silicon Valley’s dystopian control over the internet and infrastructure. With your help, we can accomplish this. Join us and invest in Gab here.

Thanks and remember to speak freely!

By the GAB team

  • Learn how to become a Gab shareholder here.
  • If you are upgrading to GabPro it’s important that you do so from our shop for the time being.

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