2025-06-14
In our topsy-turvy world where governments effectively blackmail social media platforms into censoring content that displeases the government, by the simple expedient of threatening business-terminating fines for permitting ill-defined and infinitely flexible "offences" such as "hate speech" "racism" and "offending" certain favoured sections of society defined as possessing "protected characteristics", it is unsurprising that some platforms respond by disconnecting users based within the territories of such governments.
They cannot risk the court costs or the fines. It's an unequal high-stakes game of chicken played against the social media companies by the infinitely-funded state.
Sadly, Bitchute pulled the plug on its UK customers a while ago, and now Gab has thrown in the towel. YouTube survives by actively censoring, defunding, and (allegedly) pulling devious tricks such as shadow-banning.
But whilst most social-media may not profess any special spiritual beliefs, Martin Geddes believes that Gab has let itself and us down by not standing up to the bullies in the UK.
It depends of course through which lens you are looking - viewed purely from the commercial viewpoint, their decision to protect their commercial operation is (on the surface) a no-brainer. Viewed from the spiritual perspective, it's capitulation to bullying, and we know where that leads.
Bullies never go away until somebody stands up to them. That somebody usually has to be strong enough to face the bully down - if you are not strong enough then maybe you leave it to somebody else. Strength here is an elastic term - it could cover funds, it could cover indomitable spiritual conviction, it could cover ability, drive and ambition, and no doubt much else besides.
Nevertheless, Martin Geddes takes Gab to task.
Will they respond?
