![]() ![]() Torba linked to an article that defined the ADL as a “far-left hate group.” In a different blog post, he referred to the ADL as a “Jewish Nationalist” group. It reminded users that since 2021, the Anti-Defamation League has partnered with PayPal in order to better understand how extremism is funded. As one person succinctly put it in the comments, “Jews are inbred parasites.”Īn email from Gab to its mailing list framed GabPay as a question of freedom - specifically freedom from Jews. Many of the replies took issue with this position - because it was not racist enough. To give an idea of what the money might go to, when I opened up the site to write this piece, one of the first posts I saw, with 1,500 likes, explained that any hatred of Black people and Jews isn’t racist because it’s based on “their behavior,” not ethnicity. ![]() However, Torba’s rhetoric has shifted over time while protecting free speech is still core to Gab’s messaging, the founder has also increasingly centered his Christianity, tying the extremist posts on Gab to a religious vision for a new, Christian-ruled society. Torba, 36, briefly worked in Silicon Valley before returning to found Gab in his native Pennsylvania to give conservatives - he describes himself as a “conservative Republican Christian” - a site where they could speak freely. Originally, the site was framed as a free speech hub. Now, Gab can link users’ bank accounts directly, and is charging a 1.9% fee, plus 15 cents, on transactions.īut it’s also an important part of Torba’s greater vision. Even Coinbase, one of the major sites for cryptocurrency - the main draw of which is anonymity and freedom - has blocked Gab.Ī need for revenue is part of what inspired GabPay - until it launched, the only way to pay for a GabPro account, donate or buy ads, was through check or wire transfer. PayPal blocked Gab in 2018 and Visa blocked it in 2020, in large part because of its near-complete refusal to moderate posts or content, including racism and exhortation to violence. “ If we are going to build a Christian movement it must be exclusively Christian and we can’t be afraid to say that out loud,” he wrote on Gab’s blog. Christian nationalism, as a belief system, is open about exclusion of non-Christians. ![]()
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