Responding To Tim Pool And Gettr | Guest: Andrew Torba
CEO of Gab, Andrew Torba joins Slightly Offensive to respond to Jason Miller and the questions surrounding his new platform, Gettr, which has already been suspected of banning and silencing free speech.
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And if it's on the App Store, then the company is de facto being run and controlled by Apple and Google.
So, if you look at Getter's terms of service, they have a hate speech clause, which is no different than Twitter, no different than YouTube, no different than Facebook.
You know, Getter CEO, Jason Miller, goes on interviews and says that we use artificial intelligence to ban and censor hate speech, right?
That is no different.
That is exactly what Facebook and Twitter are doing.
They ban people like Nick Funtes.
I would argue that they're actually even worse than Twitter because they actually ban entire terms.
Like you can't use the word Groyper on that platform, for example.
Obviously, we saw the crazy interview with Jason Miller and Tim Pool on Timcast IRL where they asked some most insane questions about Getter.
the app that we're all supposed to trust and love and know is going to protect our free speech.
But the most important part of this all is that I've been asking questions, important questions, about why Getter is better than Gab.
And I've had my doubts tonight confirm that.
So, obviously, despite everything, we live in Texas, and Andrew Torba, the CEO of Gab, could not drive out to meet us because he will not fly and put on a mask, not even a fake mask, worldwide mask.
So, I made sure that we had an interview with him before anyone else could about what's going on because I believe in Gab.com.
I think it's a free speech haven.
And I hope that he sees the same thing.
Anyway, I would like to welcome the show Andrew Torba, the CEO of Gab.com and founder, the most free speech app in America, as Getter seeks to do damage control due to the fact that SOBs just don't take their shit.
Yeah, so little do people know we've been trying to make this happen for a while.
Last time you were trying to come on, you said I couldn't come on.
And unlike most people who have excuses, they're getting their nails painted, changing their gender, whatever else people are doing in the world, you were getting shut down by the banking system.
Yeah, last time I tried to come on, we were getting banned from about four or five different banks.
So my top priority was putting that fire out and finding a bank that would do business with us.
And this, you know, happened, of course, right after Joe Biden was elected.
I suspect this was because of Operation Chokepoint.
But, you know, Gab is no stranger to being deplatformed.
We are the most deplatformed startup probably in history.
We've been banned from both app stores, payment processors like PayPal, Square, et cetera, banks, multiple banks, hosting providers, Amazon AWS, cloud hosting providers.
And the solution to all of that is to build our own.
We have built our own systems and our own payment processors coming out very soon, Gap Pay.
We're actually taking on merchant accounts for that right now.
So if you're a business, you can use Gap Pay to process payments.
And we've built all of these things.
We run our own servers.
We built our own workaround from the app store.
So really, what this has done, getting deplatformed from all these things, has made us the most resilient alt tech platform and the de facto market leader in the space.
Yeah, so let's talk about this because a lot of people probably aren't that familiar with Gab.
And first of all, I want to say this to everyone watching, to the blind viewers listening.
This is a public endorsement of Gab.com.
And I'm okay even taking all of the things that people, all the good and I would say not the bad in the site, but that the media tries to paint.
And I want to give a background on this because this is so important that we have this conversation because of the fact that censorship has become the root cause of almost all of our problems in the world because we can't have discussions about real solutions and about where the problems really lie.
And Gab.com has shown itself to be probably the last bashion of free speech.
I want to remind you guys, I am on gab.com.
It is the most similar to Twitter, but it is different in many ways.
And we'll talk about this.
So, Andrew, just to give a background, how long ago did you guys start Gab?
And what was your original thought of why you wanted to start this platform?
So, we started it five and a half years ago, back in 2016, in the summer of 2016.
And, you know, I was living and working in Silicon Valley at the time, and I had many friends inside of Facebook and Twitter and Google.
There are actual patriots and conservatives and Christians inside of these companies.
Maybe not so much anymore, but there were at the time for sure.
And, you know, they were telling me that the rise of censorship is going to continue.
We, of course, saw this happening during the 2016 campaign with Donald Trump.
And, you know, I wanted to do something about it.
You know, I saw where things were going and I had confirmed my gut reaction of where I thought things were going with some of my friends inside of these companies.
And I decided to step up and do something about it.
You know, a lot of people like to complain about big tech censorship, but I'm not one to whine.
I'm a doer.
I'm a builder.
And, you know, the Holy Spirit gave me the foresight and the vision to see where things were going and to build what a lot of people like to call the Noah's Ark, the digital arc for free speech on the internet.
So Gab does have rules.
I mean, it's not an anarchist playground, but we are the most pro-free speech platform on the internet and we have paid the cost for that position.
If it's protected by the First Amendment, if it's political speech, it is protected on Gab.
You know, the only things that we ban are illegal activity, threats of violence, doxing, you know, posting someone's personal information without their consent and pornography, right?
Now, if you have an edgy political opinion, if you have something that is going to hurt someone's feelings or might make some people or different groups of people upset, you're allowed to talk about it because you're allowed to talk about it under the First Amendment.
So this is an interesting thing we have to break down because first, I need everyone to realize that there are so many alt platforms and so many tech companies and social media.
And you probably hearing about another one makes you feel exhausted.
And whether you've heard a lot about Gab or you've heard a little about Gab, I want to tell you that this is the only one that I have found personally that actually holds true to its terms of service, meaning you don't find yourself magically deleted.
You don't find that your account disappears, your messages get throttled or whatever you're trying to do, that this is a very important place.
And it's taken me a while to warm up to it too, because I just didn't know.
And this is what I want to bring up, Andrew.
It can be kind of shocking to go onto an app that actually allows free speech for some people because we become so conditioned to accept the internet to be this highly censored, highly curated place.
Yet at the same time, while the ideas are censored, I mean, I can just click the wrong button just yesterday to look at my friend's sponsor and there was a woman sticking a dildo up her vagina.
So like, I mean, at the same time, there's just like rampant pornography, let's say on these other sites, but you can't say mean words.
Right.
And with that being said, you know, there's been a huge smear campaigns with your website, which is really interesting that the fact that you allow people to speak freely, you guys have been unfairly and dishonestly, like many people on the right, shamed, slammed, and smeared, I believe, after investigating as a white supremacist haven, as an extremist website, et cetera.
But from your work, from the CEO, for people that have heard those things about your website, which are, again, are false, why are they false?
Like, where do these things come from?
And how are you guys combating the narrative that is trying to scare people away from Gab.com?
So if you go to our Wikipedia, for example, it's totally gaslit with all of these scare terms that you're talking about.
But if you go to the site itself, what you'll find is good, you know, honest, hardworking, middle-class, Christian, blue-collar people, right?
And that's what I am as well.
I don't come from money.
I don't live in the Beltway.
I don't live in a big city.
You know, I'm running Gab right now.
This is my basement in the middle of the woods, right?
With my family.
You know, I have two young children.
I'm a Christian man.
I'm extremely open about my faith, which I think is one of the biggest reasons that I'm attacked and smeared so relentlessly.
And just that the, do we have people that have controversial opinions or edgy opinions or politically taboo opinions on the site?
Absolutely.
And you know what?
Those people are on Twitter.
They're on Facebook.
They're on Reddit as well.
So what the media does is they actually go and seek out those two or three handfuls of people and they say, this is the whole site.
And that's, of course, not true.
Gab has 20 million people using our service every month.
Not all of them are white supremacists and neo-Nazis, right?
This is absurd.
So I think go to the site yourself and it instantly kind of debunks that theory that we have this haven of horrible people.
What we have is a haven of truth seekers and a haven of people that want to speak freely and they cannot speak freely anywhere else, not at home, not at work, not around their friends.
They cannot be their authentic selves.
They can't talk about certain issues, be it religion, politics, you name it, COVID now, medical issues.
And Gab is the one place where they can come and they can not only be themselves and speak their mind freely, but discover that there are other people who think the same way that they do and that they're not alone.
And I think that is why they're trying so hard to take us down is because people come on Gab, they discover the truth, they engage in fellowship with other people who share their values, and they're building a community.
We're building a real community of people that are supporting one another.
You know, I've been talking about this concept of a parallel economy for over a year now.
And, you know, Gab is really forming this parallel society, this parallel economy where we have people starting businesses on Gab and supporting small businesses on Gab and helping one another and buying things from one another and engaging in commerce with one another.
And this is all outside of the system of control, right?
You know, all these mandates and everything is driving that stuff even more on our site.
And we're now laser focused on providing the tools to help that grow.
So we have a payment processor coming.
We have a Gab marketplace, which is our Facebook marketplace or Craigslist, eBay, Etsy, all those things.
That alternative coming out in the next couple of weeks.
We have a lot of big things coming and a lot of tools coming to help take this to the next level.
We've accomplished the free speech communication platform and now we want to build really a free market and a parallel economy on top of that platform and on top of that community.
Yeah, it's interesting though, in the midst of trying to build the community, I've seen it quite odd, Andrew.
I've shared a couple of your tweets about building like a Christian commerce community where we look out for our own and building this sort of bash and you don't have to be Christian to use Gab and there's lots of people who are not Christian who use it.
But that's actually what I've seen is that there's a lot of open discussion about faith and whatnot, which is very vital and important.
It's so funny though.
I shared some of your stuff and all of a sudden I started getting groups that are looking for anti-Semites following me and trying to imply that the positive of building a community where people that are on the right wing that believe in Christian conservative traditional values or at least support them, even if they don't fall into their own life, they believe that they should be preserved and should be respected, is suddenly labeled to be anti-Jewish, which was very weird thing to me because a lot of my family is Jewish.
I don't have a problem with the Jews.
I've never thought of Gab to have to be anything in any of your tweets about that kind of stuff.
But it was just really interesting where I saw the attacks come that were just dishonest.
They were slanderous.
And I see that the weight of how those words thrown around can be used to try to deplatform and to discourage people from building that Christian community because they don't want to seem like they're a bad person.
Can you tell us?
Because I don't really know.
I mean, what has the fight been?
I mean, this was, I shared two of your tweets and I got labeled an anti-Semitic.
Like, what the hell is that?
So I don't even know what you've been going through in your life, the dishonest slander.
What kind of war and battles and fights have the establishment, the banking cartels, the establishment right, the establishment left, tech companies, what hell have they thrown at you guys?
And what kind of things have they done to try to keep you guys from existing and building this Christian haven, this conservative right-wing haven and this marketplace of ideas and also of commerce?
So from within, I think, three weeks of us launching back in 2016, they called us an alt-right platform, a neo-Nazi platform, all this stuff.
And that didn't work.
We just kept growing.
So their next attempt was to, you know, pull the rug out from app stores and hosting providers and payment processors.
And they thought, surely if they don't have access to the app stores, surely if they don't have access to payment processors and hosting providers, they won't be able to exist anymore.
They're dead on arrival.
But we overcame those trials and tribulations by the grace of God and were able to build solutions to all of those roadblocks that they put in our way.
And ironically, all of these attacks have only made us stronger.
So, you know, we've had groups like the ADL, the SPLC, we've had members of Congress, Congress itself.
We've had foreign governments, the nation state of Germany is sending us letters and sending us fees because we refuse to comply with their censorship demands.
We turn down data requests from the UK, Brazil, all the time because they want to get the data on users who are posting hate speech.
So we get attacked from pretty much everybody.
Like you said, the establishment left, the establishment right, foreign nations, our own Congress, payment processors, banks, you name it.
And we have come under the gun.
But again, by the grace of God, we're still standing and we're still growing.
And what they don't want, the biggest threat to the establishment oligarch's power is Christians coming together in fellowship and uniting against this rise of global communism that we're seeing happen right now.
And that is a threat that Gab poses.
So what I've been seeing over the past two or three years on Gab is we see Christians from all across the faith, whether it be Catholics or Orthodox or Protestant believers, who are coming together and who are uniting and saying, we have this common enemy of censorship.
We have this common enemy of the subversion of our countries.
We have this common enemy of communism.
We need to unite on this battle and on this front and come together to build solutions.
You know, we're not revolutionaries as Christians.
We're reformers and we're builders.
And I think that is what we're doing at Gab.
We are building and we are leading the way and inspiring other people, an entire new generation to build solutions.
The left and the anarchists on the left, they go out and they destroy cities.
They're revolutionaries.
We are not revolutionaries as believers in Christ.
We are, again, we are reformers and we are builders.
And that's the spirit of the Gab community.
And that is the spirit that they ultimately want to take down.
I don't know if you've seen those recent articles coming out of the mainstream media saying about how their push to de-generate the world with these liberal democracies is starting to lose traction and they're starting to fail because people are waking up and seeing that the smut, what it does to them.
And I always tell people that I'm not a victim, but I'm a symptom of this.
Even when I look at my life, I'm like, man, there's so many experiences and things that happened as a kid to me.
And I've seen to other people that I wish I never knew or didn't experience.
And I realize just generation after generation, at some point, we've got to put an end to all of this stuff because even if we struggle with the trauma or the issues, like you said, as believers, there's always redemption.
There's always grace.
You know, I do have a question for you, though, because a lot of people, it's interesting.
My co-host of my other show, You Are Here, she's an atheist, right?
We share a lot of the same values.
I joke around, call her a Christian atheist because there's just so much similarities.
You know, with the movement that you're pushing, the movement that you're pulling, if someone's not a Christian, like a lot of people who watch the show are not, like, what is in it?
What is in Gab for them?
Like, I mean, what is in what is in joining this community?
What is what does this do for them?
Or is this really kind of not, is this not the place for them?
No, we have plenty of people who are atheists and plenty of people who are from different religions, even who are on Gab because what they recognize is that Western society and Western values are built on top of Christian values, right?
So, what we're doing is we're preserving and conserving Christian values and American values, which are Christian values, you know, for the world.
And we're going to export that to the world as well.
You know, free speech is definitely one of those values, and free association is one of those values as well.
And we welcome everybody.
We don't, you know, there's not a test.
Are you a Christian checkbox yes or no at sign up?
Anybody is welcome to join and you can dissent.
And I have plenty of dissent in my comment section from atheists and from pagans and from people of different religions.
And that's okay.
And that's welcome.
That's what free speech is about.
You know, what I think those people are realizing is that, you know, I may not be a believer in Christ.
I may not, you know, believe in Christianity, but I do believe in Christian values.
And I do believe that the West has been sustained and was built on the back of Christian values.
And that is worth fighting for so that they can continue.
I mean, Christianity is the only one that is tolerant of allowing pagans and atheists and other religions to exist in our societies, right?
I mean, you try to go to a country that is dominated by another religion as a Christian or as an atheist or as a pagan, you're not going to have a good time.
So I think these people realize this and that they realize that defending Christian values, even if they're not a Christian, is something worth doing.
I want to talk to you about why people should use Gab and not other websites, or like what I mean, not just not use them, but why this would and should be a convincing alternative.
I do like Telegram a lot.
It has its limitations.
It's not exactly what, you know, what I think people are looking for long term in terms of social media.
It's a good place to get a good hub of people together and to sort of discuss or have private messages.
But I want to talk about Getter, which has come to be a competitor, I would say, of some kind.
You may disagree with that.
But we've been tracking on my other nightly show and mentioning here that with just a little research, obviously Getter came out.
That's G-E-T-T-R, for those of you guys that are wondering.
It slowly began to firework or balloon because people like Joe Rogan joined.
I think Tim Poole also joined other large names that are not fundamentally right-wing people per se, that people that have a lot of influence in the culture.
And Getter comes out of left field.
It has an app in the app store, right?
Where you guys have been banned.
It had some advantages.
It's like, okay, here we are.
And then it turned out that Getter, you know, they banned Nicholas J. Fuentes, who, of course, people don't like him for their own reasons, but they banned him without explaining why he violated their terms of service.
We've discussed that they're taking money from China.
It's all Chinese money, which makes no sense.
I was able to tag Joe Rogan, get some stuff to his attention.
I was able to get Candace Owens to blast some of the stuff as well.
And it quickly has been unraveling on the right wing that Getter is just another big tech Chinese app masquerading as a bash in a safe haven for the right wing.
And so it's like, how are you different than Getter?
Like, because that's that's we've been following this.
Why is Gab.com?
Why should we even give you a chance?
Because it's like, are you going to disappoint us?
You know what I mean?
Like, is this just another second date where we find out that you're just as bad as the last date?
Like, why would we choose gab.com to spend our time building our audience, regaining followers?
Yeah, so I would say that if it's on the app store, first of all, it's not free speech.
And if it's on the app store, then the company is de facto being run and controlled by Apple and Google.
So if you look at Getter's terms of service, they have a hate speech clause, right, which is no different than Twitter, no different than YouTube, no different than Facebook.
You know, Getter CEO, Jason Miller, goes on interviews and says that we use artificial intelligence to ban and censor hate speech, right?
That is no different.
That is exactly what Facebook and Twitter are doing.
They ban people like Nick Fuentes.
I would argue that they're actually even worse than Twitter because they actually ban entire terms.
Like you can't use the word Groyper on that platform, for example, right?
So, you know, these guys are fakers, right?
And I wouldn't have a problem if they came out and said, we're going to be just the conservative alternative to Twitter.
The problem that I have is that they're claiming to be a free speech platform when they're not.
They have the same terms of service of big tech.
They're enforcing the same type of rules as big tech.
And they're de facto owned and controlled by big tech because their servers are hosted on Amazon, who, as we saw with Parlor last year, can pull the rug at any time.
They're built on the back of the app stores, and therefore they answer to Apple and Google.
And Gab doesn't have any of those problems.
We don't answer to some shady billionaire in China.
We don't answer to Apple or Google.
We don't answer to Amazon, AWS, because we have our own servers.
We don't depend on the app stores and we're funded by our users.
So that is why Gab is different.
You see all these attacks that Gab has taken.
We've been no platformed by banks.
We've been attacked by the ADL.
We've been attacked by the establishment right, the establishment left.
We've been attacked by the mainstream media.
We've been attacked by PayPal and all these hosting companies and 25 plus different services.
And what does that tell you?
That tells you that Gab is the real deal.
If the entire system is coming after us and trying to destroy us and trying to get our website taken off the internet, that tells you that we are the real deal.
You know, I want to talk about moderation for a second here.
About 98% of our moderation is actually handled by our community.
So we have Gab groups and the users are running those groups and they moderate them as they see fit.
Now, they're not obviously allowed to ban users at will, but they can remove certain posts from certain groups if it's not on topic.
Like if you have a dog group, for example, and someone's posting about cars, well, that doesn't belong in there, right?
So most of the moderation, about 98% of the moderation on the site, is actually being done by our users.
So it's a self-moderating and decentralized moderation approach, you know, versus this centralized, you know, top-down approach that you see on Facebook and on Twitter and everywhere else.
So, you know, that's really what makes us different.
Is if you see the whole system coming after us, you look at our terms of service and you don't see any hate speech clause like you see on these big tech platforms or on any of these fakers like Getter.
You see that we're banned from all the app stores, we're banned from hosting providers and banks and everything else.
That tells you that we're the real deal.
And I think that proves that we are the leader in the space when it comes to providing a platform for free speech, true free speech, not just a marketing term, but the ability to say whatever you want, whatever you're thinking, within the legal limits of the United States of America.
Imagine where you go on the internet and where people go, but we can't have free speech because people are going to say horrible things.
Well, are you really?
I mean, like, I'm not going to go on.
Like, people say, well, it's like, can you use the N-word on Gab?
Sure, I'm sure.
I just don't use it in my own speech.
So it's like, do it, does someone a gab making me, I have to join and now I've got to start saying the N-word?
No.
That's what they want you to think.
That's the psyop of like, well, you go onto a free speech site and suddenly you're going to start using homophobic slurs in the N-word.
It's like, well, no, why would you change who you are?
That's not what free speech is.
And if people do that, who gives a shit?
I don't.
But I also realize that what's really important is that's a psyop because when I go on there, I'm not going on there to harass people and you probably wouldn't either.
And anybody listening or watching, you'd probably go on there to do one thing, to find ideas and to share your own, sharpen your worldview.
And when I go on there, I mean, this is on YouTube, so I have to, I can't even say this.
We're going to talk about the election, we have to speak and double speak on YouTube.
It's the most fair and free election in modern American history with the most competent president ever elected.
That's definitely not a hologram.
You know, when we talk about, you know, COVID, you know, COVID is definitely the deadliest pandemic that has ever happened in the galactic empire.
January 6th is the worst event since blowing up the Death Star.
I mean, I mean, it's gotten so crazy that it's like when you go onto a platform where they've lied to you and made you think it's this toxic, evil place, and you can just read the truth, speak the truth, say the truth, and not worry about repercussion in the world where everything, like Andrew said, about, you know, with climate change and, you know, the election, all these things, it's just, it's all been so suppressed and censored and just absolutely even just reduced in the algorithms that for once,
being in a place where people are honest and you can actually speak your mind to people that you want to meet.
I mean, man, you don't realize how much they've taken from us.
You don't realize how much they've taken from us until you get it back.
Yeah, what we found is that people come over to Gab and they can be their authentic selves, right?
And as I said earlier, they really feel like they can't be their authentic selves and actually say what they're really thinking anywhere else, you know, not on Facebook, not on YouTube.
Again, like you have to speak and double speak.
You have to self-censor what you're actually thinking, what you actually want to say.
And that is by design.
That is what the system wants.
They want to condition you and socially engineer you to not talk about these things, to not think about these things.
That is their ultimate form of actual mind control is this self-censorship and this self-imposed censorship.
It's mine, in my opinion, it's the worst form of censorship.
When you have to censor yourself in order to keep your job or keep your livelihood or whatever it is, right?
So that is what we're trying to create a culture of destroying.
Now, I want a culture where people speak their minds without this fear of losing everything and having this mob attack them because they have a different political opinion or a different idea than someone else.
This is absurd, this culture that we're in.
And it's totally un-American.
It's un-Christian.
And this is not a sustainable culture.
It's a culture of tyranny.
And if there's going to be one place, and this is one of the things that inspires me every day, because my biggest fear, and we're already starting to see this happen, is that they're going to start calling the Bible hate speech.
They're going to start calling Christians bigots and homophobes and racists and all this stuff.
We already see these narratives being seated over the past five or 10 years.
And we're going to become ostracized in our own country and in our own countries across the world.
And they're going to make it so that you can't talk about the Bible.
You can't talk about the gospel on the mainstream internet.
That is where this is going.
I mean, that sounds outlandish to say right now, but if I were to tell you five and a half years ago that they were going to ban a sitting president from Twitter while he was still in office, you would have thought that was outlandish too.
But I really see that this is where this is going.
So Christians in particular really need to pay attention to what's happening and need to get off these platforms that are run by people who hate us and who hate Christ.
Here I am, blue collar guy, don't come from money.
I come from humble roots, working in the middle of the woods, in the middle of nowhere, not in some big city or in the Beltway.
And I have a family and that's another big reason why I'm doing what I'm doing is so that my kids have the same freedoms and enjoy the same freedoms that I grew up with.
And I'm someone that shares your values.
So you want to use these platforms run by these people who hate you and who hate Christ, or do you want to use a platform that is run by somebody who shares your values and shares your beliefs and wants to protect those beliefs and wants to protect those values.
And I want to remind people too, like how Andrew said, like he's not from the cities in the woods.
I am a city boy and people give me a lot of crap for that.
And I, you know, it's okay.
I found a lot of like, you know, people might be afraid, like, well, I don't want to go on there.
Maybe people are too right-wing, this or that.
Guys, number one, it's the internet.
People are going to give you crap no matter what.
Like if your voice is too high or it's too low or you're too short or you're too this or you're too, everyone's always going to find a problem with you.
It's the world.
Thicken up.
You know, you don't really need to walk around being afraid.
But honestly, Gab has been such a wonderful experience.
Now, just for people to know this, because it's like, okay, so then that's cool for Gab.
I can, you know, you could be welcomed there.
And I'm going to remind you guys, you can still block people on there too.
So it's like, it's like if people harass you or whatever, you can just block them.
This is a very normal site.
It's so amazing.
What are some of the features too?
Like I've just, I've explored, but I would consider myself still new to Gab.
I've only had it for about a year.
And of course, I've been warming up and been like, you know, I finally have adopted it.
I've become, I don't know if there's a name for people when you're like, all right, this is pretty, this is, this is base.
I like this a lot.
I like this website.
I like this app.
What are some of the things that you guys offer now?
Not just what's coming up, but like different types of things people can access on the website.
So, I mean, we have our home feed, which is chronological.
There's no algorithms there whatsoever.
So it's just, you know, content that is coming in from people that you follow as it's, as it's coming in, which is something that differentiates us from all the other platforms who now have these mysterious algorithms that decide what you see and what you don't see.
We have a DM system.
So, you know, basic stuff, group chats and direct messages.
We have groups.
So that's one of our biggest features.
So, you know, again, there's a lot of Gab that is not political.
You know, people think it's all politics, but like we have different corners of Gab in these groups with people who like talking about cars or like talking about sports or like talking about all different types of interests and activities.
So that's one of our bigger features is the groups feature.
We have this new feature that just came out that's called Gab Feeds.
So we allow you to create your own custom feed.
And where we're going with that is we're going to let the users actually create their own algorithms.
So for example, you could say, I want to see posts from these 100 users and these five groups.
And I want to sort those by the top content from all those people in all those groups over the past 24 hours.
And then people will be able to subscribe to that feed algorithm and be able to check that on their own and share that publicly as well.
So that's one of the new innovations that we're bringing to the table is giving people the ability to create their own feeds and create their own algorithms and customize the experience in a way that they want.
And as you mentioned, you can block people, you can mute people.
I believe that free association comes hand in hand with free speech.
So someone's saying something you don't like, you don't have to follow them.
You don't have to see that in your feed.
You can block them.
You can mute them.
We're all about giving people more control over their experience versus issuing authoritarian and tyrannical control from the top down, which is what Silicon Valley and some of these other alt platforms are doing as well.
Yeah, I also saw too that you guys have a pretty nice news section, which is pretty cool.
So you're able to actually get the news, see what's breaking right now, and actually get stories that are probably more relevant than just like Beyonce lost an earring.
Actually, I see like Doctor Taking Legal Action mentions horse-paced healthcare workers erupted to cheers and applause.
You guys also have this feature here, which is the Gab TV, which I'm not going to go to.
I accidentally clicked on that, but you can actually watch videos.
You can see what's going on.
You might even notice that there are some of the people that have been banned.
You have doctors speaking medical advice.
Crazy that they can do that on the internet still.
I mean, I see like Owen Benjamin, Nick, and some people that, you know, have been sort of pushed off the internet, which is refreshing back when it was.
But you have some mainstream stuff too.
You see Tucker being posted if you're not for that stuff.
Dan Crenshaw being humiliated as he tries to talk down to a little girl because he's got an ego.
It's got a problem.
And some Christian stuff as well, which is pretty cool.
So it's quite varied, quite amazing.
Maybe one day we'll be on, maybe we'll start uploading some stuff there too.
Through the fight and through this, I want to remind everybody, all the SOBs that have been fighting that have been there, make sure you make a Gab account.
If you go to gab.com, it's really easy.
They have on the website, by the way, it's really easy on your phone.
You can turn it into an app.
So it's actually quite cool.
And it actually is even better than the browser.
Essentially, what you can do is just like right-click on the options and you can, it says like turn web browser into like an icon on the home page on your device.
And they have directions on the website.
Can you tell us how to do that?
Because this changed my life.
This is how I started using it because there was no app.
Andrew, the people that are out there that are against us, against the Christians, against those that are fighting for the right things, they're powerful.
They control a lot of things.
But most importantly, I want to remind everybody that don't be a retard in terms of the fact that everyone wants to try to run right into fire.
Remember, this is like World War I. We're both in our trenches.
And if you pop out at the wrong time, just because you'd want to be brave, you might just get your head blown off by a machine gun.
And while that's, I'm glad that you're brave, we need you in the fight and we need all of you guys.
And so please be smart and realize that we are in a cold war and it is tactical.
And if people really are in power and things really are the way that we believe they are going around the world, the satanic people that seek to destroy that which is good, then don't be stupid about it.
Be smart.
Be like Andrew.
Create your own system instead of just trying to tear down theirs.
Try to be smart on how you build up because I'm telling you guys, you don't know.
Like if you see the problems, this is one man who's built a team who's doing so much to reach 20 million people a month.
I mean, or at least 20 million visits.
It's fundamental how quickly with the power of God, your voice in your platforms can grow and can expand.
And we need you guys in the fight to get involved, to continue to share Gab.
It is definitely a word of mouth thing.
And so if you're watching this and you're loyal to the show, please share this link and share with people.
Tell them to get on Gab.
Follow me.
Follow Andrew and get on board Andrew Torba, the founder and CEO of gab.com.
Again, you can find me at gab.com/slash Elijah Schaefer.
And where can people find and support you on social media if they want to know more?
If they want to continue to follow you besides just the website, where can they find you on Gab, on Twitter, etc.?
