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On Fri, 17 May 2024 05:57:09 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> So much for the claim that “If a forum does specifically state that it's
> right-wing, the whole forum has probably been banned by now”, then.

They tried. The Gab app was banned from the Apple and Google stores. 
GoDaddy dropped them as did some payment processors like Paypal. At one 
point they switched to a fork of Mastadon which resulted in some of the 
Mastodon servers trying to ban them from the fediverse. AWS and other 
cloud services didn't want them so they're running their own server farm.

Andrew Anglin had a bit of Schadenfreude about the troubles of Parler, 
Gab, and other sites that found themselves without a domain registrar or 
cloud provider. He probably was the first to be deplatformed and cycled 
through a lot of countries but kept getting kicked out. His site is up on 
Tor but I don't know if there is a regular url. It was a classic case of 
'When they came for...."