GETTR is not 'free speech'
Jason Miller wants someone gone, and they're gone. No explanations are given, to anyone.
This is a followup to this.
Several people have written to GETTR about this - no response.
Rixstep never got any correspondence from GETTR. They inquired too - no response.
The idea that Jason Miller doesn't censor is absurd. He's brought in the Bolsonaros and now Nigel Farage, who all believe GETTR is a 'free speech platform'. It is not.
Germany in the 1930s. Things are finally picking up. Inflation was so bad that people brought wheelbarrows of cash to the supermarket. Now Hitler promises 'a chicken in a pot on every stove on Sunday'. And he delivers. People see their lives coming together again.
But they also hear strange stories. About other things going on. The whispers are echoes. Something is wrong. For real. Yet few people know what to do about it. The 'authorities' seem more and more intimidating. One daren't raise one's voice. Those who do raise their voices are suddenly not heard from again. No one knows what happened to them.
Stalin in the early 1950s. Same thing. People who've made it to the West and, in some cases, to the US somehow still get letters from 'back home'. They share the letters with their non-Russian friends. As they translate, the tears come.
Andrew Torba may be a lot of things to a lot of people, but one thing he got right from the get-go is the 1st Amendment to the US Constitution. That amendment, and all the rulings that followed on it, made it clear what 'free speech' is and that you can't impinge on it.
Andrew got booted off app stores because he wouldn't censor. He got called every name in the book because he wouldn't censor. A lot of people wonder what he's really up to privately but his rule about 1A stands fast.
If it's not allowed under 1A, then it's not allowed on his site either. Which of course makes perfect sense. As he would, in such case, have to take it down.
There's one case known where he had to do this. His own legal eagles studied the matter and advised that he could be subject to sanction if he didn't do something. So he openly advised the forum member in question of the situation and gave the member ample time to fix things. The forum member refused, Andrew waited a bit more, then fixed it himself.
The other people at the site were well aware what was going on through the entire process.
Jason Miller offers no such open process. When Jason Miller wants someone gone, they're just gone. Jason Miller can advertise that he's all about 'free speech', but he's not. What Jason Miller is counting on is that people won't remember, that people will be too busy with other things, like Germany in the 1930s and Russia in the 1950s. Yes, it’s fucking creepy.
There have always been blacklisted words and phrases at GETTR, most of them at worst innocuous, but Jason Miller and his staff have always stubbornly denied this. But it’s been proven, repeatedly, time and again - Jason Miller censors posts and/or disallows posts with blacklisted words and phrases. It’s been proven.
It doesn't matter how this matter resolves. Jason Miller wants someone gone, and they're gone. No explanations are given, to anyone. That's 'free speech' as Jason Miller defines it.