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Microsoft threatened to drop hosting for Gab over hate speech posts

• https://www.theverge.com, By Russell Brandom

Microsoft has threatened to cease hosting services for the alt-right social network Gab over two anti-Semitic posts, according to an email published by Gab founder Andrew Torba. The email claims the posts violate Microsoft policy and requests that Gab "promptly take appropriate action to resolve the complaint…within two business days" or hosting service will be suspended. If Gab is forced off Azure, Torba says service "will go down for weeks/months" as the company secures a new provider.

The named posts were written by Patrick Little, a Senate candidate who was ejected from a GOP convention in May for anti-Semitic views. The named posts, which are more than three weeks old, also express intense anti-Semitism and meet any reasonable definition of hate speech.

Little removed the posts on Friday, but described the complaint as "a violation of our rights as Americans." Neither Gab nor Little responded to a request for comment.


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