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https://www.wired.com/story/how-right-wing-social-media-site-gab-got-back-online/ AFTER IT WAS  revealed that the alleged shooter at a Pittsburgh synagogue had  made threats  on the social network Gab to kill Jews, multiple technology infrastructure firms dropped Gab—including domain registrar GoDaddy, web host Joyent, and payment processors PayPal and Stripe. The moves knocked Gab offline for nearly a week, during which the company painted itself as a martyr for free speech and milked the media for attention. Over the weekend, however, Gab returned to the web. The extremist-friendly social media site’s reappearance was made possible by two companies and the men behind them: digital security provider Cloudflare, helmed by self-described “free speech absolutist” Matthew Prince, and domain registrar Epik, led by Rob Monster. Cloudflare, which protects websites from denial of service attacks, is best known for dropping neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer as a custom...

  Sections  Democracy Dies in Darkness Try 1 month for $1 Sign In We’re glad you’re enjoying The Washington Post.  You’re almost out of free articles for this month. Already a subscriber?  Sign in Subscribe for $1 Send me this offer × Share on Google Plus Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Google Plus Share via Email Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Tumblr Resize Text Print Article Comments The Volokh Conspiracy   Opinion Supreme Court unanimously reaffirms: There is no ‘hate speech’ exception to the First Amendment By  Eugene Volokh Contributor, The Volokh Conspiracy June 19, 2017 The Supreme Court building in Washington. (J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press) From today’s opinion by Justice Samuel Alito (for four justices) in  Matal v. Tam , the “Slants” case: [The idea that th...