Dan Bishop Defamed as White Supremacist for Donating to Pro-Free Speech Social Media Site
Shane Trejo
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State Senator Dan Bishop, the Republican Party candidate for the 9th Congressional district in the upcoming North Carolina special election, is getting maligned as a white supremacist for supporting freedom of speech.
A dark money 501c4 group, Stand Up Republic, founded in part by ‘Never Trump’ former CIA spook Evan McMullin, has produced an advertisement against Bishop criticizing him for donating to Gab, the free speech social networking website.
McMullin couldn’t sabotage Trump while running against him as an independent presidential candidate in 2016, so now his shadow groups try to destroy the GOP under the President’s stewardship. It worked when they funded ad buys against Judge Roy Moore in 2017, and Stand Up Republic is now trying to duplicate that success by handing another winnable race to the Democrats.
“Remember when neo-Nazis marched in Charlottesville and killed a young woman?” a narrator says during the ad. “When they were banned from social media, Dan Bishop took their side. In fact he invested in a social media website because it welcomed the white supremacists.”
The disgraceful ad can be seen here:
Bishop released a statement on Monday criticizing his Democratic opponent, Dan McCready, and the producers of this ad for their tremendously dishonest, divisive and classless attacks against his character.
“Dan McCready was already running the most dishonest campaign in America but this ad is a new low filled with libelous, defamatory slander and any media outlet that publishes or broadcasts it should prepare to join the ad’s sponsors in defending it in court,” Bishop said in a statement.
Gab has been frequently criticized by the fake news media because the site does not arbitrarily censor content. The free speech social media site works with law enforcement and refuses to allow illegal content on its platform, but that hasn’t stopped the onslaught of dishonest attacks against them as the establishment desperately attempts to protect the Big Tech monopolies.
Let’s make it very clear: Gab is not a lawless place. We have common sense user guidelines in place that do not and have never allowed threats of violence, copyright infringement, or illegal content like child sexual exploitation.
— Gab.com (@getongab) August 5, 2019
We work tirelessly with our community members, volunteers, and support staff to monitor and take action against any and all illegal content.
— Gab.com (@getongab) August 5, 2019
We work directly with law enforcement and cooperate fully with the legal process when served.
— Gab.com (@getongab) August 5, 2019
Gab is not a chaos factory.
Do we allow “offensive” speech that is protected by the first amendment? Absolutely.
Do we allow political dissidents who have been banned from other platforms? Absolutely.
Do we allow lawlessness?
Absolutely not.
— Gab.com (@getongab) August 5, 2019
If anything, Bishop’s support of Gab should be a reason for conservatives and libertarians who care about protecting the First Amendment of the Constitution to support the man.
“I’m about done with SF [San Francisco] thought police tech giants’ Big Brother routine, and so … I just invested in a free-speech social network startup mentioned in a Washington Post article today, Gab.ai. Free markets are the answer to many kinds of tyranny,” Bishop wrote in a Facebook post in 2017.
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