Article By Andrew Torba CEO Gab.com
Australia is running a giant government commission on “antisemitism and social cohesion,” and the target is obvious: free speech, independent platforms, and anyone who refuses to repeat the regime-approved script.
This is not about protecting people from hatred. It is about building the political and legal machinery to blame speech for social problems the ruling class created, then using that blame to justify more censorship.
First, expand definitions until normal political criticism becomes “harm.” Then bring in activist “experts” to explain why dissent is dangerous. Then declare that independent platforms are a national security concern. Then pressure banks, app stores, hosting companies, and payment processors to do what governments cannot openly do themselves.
That is the real story.
Australia is not investigating “social cohesion.” They are investigating how to control the public square.
They are frustrated because people no longer trust their captured institutions. They are frustrated because platforms like Gab exist outside their control. They are frustrated because millions of people can now speak, organize, publish, and build without asking permission from bureaucrats, legacy media, or activist NGOs.
So they need a scapegoat.
They will blame free speech. They will blame Gab. They will blame “extremism.” They will blame anyone who notices the pattern.
What they will not do is blame the failed political class, the dishonest media, the collapsing trust in institutions, or the censorship campaigns that created this crisis in the first place.
Gab was built for this moment.
We are not here to help governments manufacture consent. We are not here to enforce activist speech codes. We are not here to make bureaucrats comfortable.
We are here to defend the right of ordinary people to speak freely, build freely, and live outside the control of captured institutions.
And the timing could not be more revealing. As this commission ramps up, we were informed that the underwriting bank we rely on for international processing has banned Gab. Their excuse is that I appear on a “blacklist” produced by the ADL and the SPLC.
That is how the censorship machine works.
Government pressure, activist blacklists, financial chokepoints, media smears, and bureaucratic theater all moving in the same direction: silence dissent and punish anyone who builds an alternative.
We are staying the course.
If you believe in a free internet and free speech, now is the time to act. Support us at Gab.
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