Expect this to be the next online battleground. Gab is an obvious target because of its politics and apparent technical competence.
It’s not clear that fleeing to Gab is any more feasible than going to Parler. The same logic that closed the latter will apply to the former.
If they can close Parler, they can close Gab. As the ACLU is realizing they can close anything. It started with the NY Post but where it ends nobody knows.
Of course the real kicker is that every investor in alternative media stands to lose their stake.
Tech’s power play is a demonstration of network infrastructure dominance. Strategists and practicing tyrants will long study the CCP and Democratic party as either a how to or how not to.
(This incidentally is a preview of it means to lose the cyber war in China.)
So what’s going to stop them? Catastrophe. The very things that are wrecking California and wrecked Detroit. That’s not the facile answer but the likely one.