Kickstarter, GoFundMe, and Patreon have all taken ideological stances and banned, censored, or oppressed some views while hypocritically advertising and amplifying other views
I get a little frustrated when I see people even try to use these platforms because their selective application of their "policies" is nothing new. I don't get why everyone was so surprised when GoFundMe shut down the Truckers thing... of course they were going to do that.
It's like when conservative voices get all shocked when they are demonitized, shadow-banned, or permanently banned from FB, Twitter, YouTube etc. Move to other platforms and take the power away from the giants... the government certainly isn't going to help them and honestly, I wouldn't want the government in charge of doing so anyway.
Yes, but people fleeing platforms to other platforms need to research the platform they are fleeing to. Is the platform on its own servers or is it Amazon, Microsoft, or Google cloud? If it is the later then it is subject to shutdown from those companies and likely would start with threats to do so if they do not change.
Then there is payment processors. VISA, Paypal, and others have taken ideological stances and cancelled people and businesses.
Then there is your internet provider. Again some of them have cancelled based upon ideological stances.
Then there is your domain name (DNS) provider. Similar things happen.
There are some nastier things they could do that I am not going to mention here because I do not want to put the idea out there for them.
Out of all of them GAB seems to be the only one that has taken efforts to address all of these. It has been around awhile now and has been attacked on all of these fronts. I don't think it is the perfect platform in terms of usability but it is the one I think has planned the best.
Bitchute and some others are close in line for that as well. I am not sure how protected in these areas that Rumble is.
Some of the other alternatives have already shown they practice similar ideological purging and modern day book burning. GETTR is getting hammered by people noticing this now.
The thing GAB and others proved earlier is the people saying "If you don't like it go build your own" were always lying. They immediately attack and attempt to destroy things other people try to build.