Gab Forks Brave, Adding Bitcoin Lightning For a New ‘Free Speech Browser’

The controversial social media site Gab has built its own Dissenter web browser. The browser is the first step in eventually creating a “free-speech marketplace and app store that is powered by free-speech money, bitcoin.”

GAB Will Strip Down Brave and Add Tor, bitcoin

Due to GAB’s controversial reputation of hosting objectionable content, GAB has found it difficult to find any service provider willing to host its services. The platform has therefore decided to create its own forked version of the web browser Brave, which itself is based on Chrome open-source code, to sustain its laissez-faire interpretation of free speech.

Dissenter is a browser extension launched February 26 that allows anyone to leave comments on URLS. Users simply type their comment and click “Dissent this,” which then interfaces with the given URL. The extension also allows users to up and down vote content for both comments and URLs.

Understandably, the news didn’t go down well with Brave’s CEO Brendan Eich, with Eich stating on Twitter.

Answer this: what kind of parasite forks an open source browser to get an extension distributed to people who can already work around silly AppStore bans?

Brave is for users who dare to take back control of their data. Some who wants a detached comment system can use Dissenter.

— BrendanEich (@BrendanEich) April 18, 2019

However, GAB’s CEO Andrew Torba doesn’t see it that way, saying that the entire point of open source is to allow others to build upon an existing codebase and add more value.

Torba also noted the realities of forks and open source projects, stating:

Open-source projects are forked all the time, GitHub even shows the fork count on every repo and the community uses it as a badge of honor. I can’t imagine any legitimate reason why Brendan or anyone else would have a problem with this.

However, the crossing of swords between Torba and Eich didn’t stop there.

Bye BAT, Welcome Back bitcoin

In a previous in a video posted by Torba on January 26, he describes GAB’s use of BAT tokens as an alternative to online advertising as “a joke”.

The Gab Web Browser? https://t.co/EcsgXsYiKa

— Dissenter.com 💬Gab.com (@getongab) January 26, 2019

In an interview with decryptmedia, Torba reinforced his position further, stating that the Disssenter browser removes unnecessary components such as the BAT token but keeps “the best parts.”

Specifically, the web browser will feature ad-blocking and native access to Tor.

Surmising his overall position against keeping BAT, Torba stated:

Preventing ad fraud, launching ‘privacy-friendly’ ad networks, and empowering advertisers in general aren’t things that inspire us or real people outside of BAT holders for that matter.

bitcoin Lightning Integration

Instead of using BAT for rewarding websites and individuals (regardless of proof of ownership), Torba will instead work towards an integration of the Dissenter web browser and the bitcoin Lightning Network.

Details, so far, have been scarce but things appear to be moving ahead. Said Torba:

We are working on [Lightning Network] integration with a very influential [LN] company, but don’t have any public news on that just yet.

Will you be trying out the Dissenter web browser? Leave your comments below!

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Published at Fri, 26 Apr 2019 16:00:01 +0000

March 31, 2017

Ending the Federal Reserve from the Bottom Up

mises.org / William Greene / March 31, 2017

Since its inception, the U.S. Federal Reserve’s monetary policies have led to a decline of over 95% in the purchasing power of the U.S. dollar. As a result, there have been several attempts to curtail or eliminate the Federal Reserve’s powers (e.g., the efforts of Rep. Louis T. McFadden in the 1930s; the efforts of Rep. Wright Patman in the 1970s; the efforts of Rep. Henry Gonzalez in the 1990s; and the efforts of Rep. Ron Paul since the 1990s). However, none have proven successful to date, due mainly to the constraints of strong political opposition at the national level. In contrast to these “top‐down” attempts at the national level, this paper proposes an alternative approach to ending the Federal Reserve’s monopoly on money: the “Constitutional Tender Act,” a bill template that can be introduced in every state legislature in the nation, returning each of them to adherence to the U.S. Constitution’s “legal tender” provisions of Article I, Section 10.

This approach would have a greater likelihood of success for a number of reasons. First, it is decentralized: rather than facing concerted political opposition at a single Federal level, it attacks the issue at the State level, where strategies and tactics can be adapted to the types and amount of political opposition they encounter. Second, it is diffused: it can be attempted in any number of States, which can cause the opposition to spread its resources much more thinly than would be necessary at the Federal level. Finally, it is legally sound: it relies on the U.S. Constitution’s negative mandate in Article I, Section 10, that “No State shall… make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts.” Therefore, in contrast to “top‐down” attempts to “end the Fed,” a “bottom‐up” approach using “constitutional tender” laws will find greater success.

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