Gab started with a simple mission: provide a platform for everyone that defends free and legal speech online. We soon learned that gatekeepers could prevent anyone from building and distributing an application, stifling innovation and market opportunity. After realizing this empirically when Gab was rejected from Apple's App Store for "objectionable content," removed from Google's Play Store for "hate speech," forced off our hosting provider Microsoft Azure, and threatened by our domain registrar for the same reasons: we knew that we had become a threat to the establishment social networks and that we had to keep building. 

Gab is an ad-free social network dedicated to preserving individual liberty, the freedom of speech, and the free flow of information on the internet. We believe a free and open internet is essential to the future of a free world. Freedom is creative. It produces. It generates. From freedom flows truth, beauty, wisdom, and growth.

We believe censorship and closed systems are ultimately about two things: destruction and control. Censorship does not create value, it annihilates it. It corrals human thought into the direction of its choosing. It attempts to bend the global consciousness to its will. This has always historically been the case. Censorship is nothing new.


The difference is we don't have to stand by and watch it happen. We don't have to watch the free and open internet be manipulated by four to five elites in Silicon Valley.

The internet belongs to We The People. Period.

Together we can preserve something incredible for generations to come. A human achievement so great it challenges the status quo and power of the global elite: the fundamental human right of expression.



We believe there is none more powerful in this world than the storytellers. No amount of money, human resources, or time can stop them or their ideas. The goal of censorship is to silence the storytellers, the truth seekers, the contrarians, the artists, those who question the status quo. We cannot stand by and watch this continue to happen.

This will not be an overnight battle. It will likely be a 5-10 year digital, cultural, and information war. We can and will win. We've built an incredible community of amazing people who share our values and cherish liberty. That is why we will continue to win. Join us and help keep the internet great for generations to come.


You will never silence the storytellers.

The primary objective of this fundraising campaign is to continue building out our alternative social network that defends free speech, individual liberty, and the free flow of information online. Our goal is to expand our core team, make the product faster and more user-friendly, and start building out our own free speech-friendly infrastructure.

Gab stands for bringing people together of all races, religions, and creeds who share in the common ideals of Western values around individual liberty and the free exchange of ideas. 

Here at Gab, we put people first, providing them with the tools they need to create and shape their own online experience. Gab was launched to appeal to consumers unhappy with censorship. Like other social media platforms, Gab allows users to upload and stream their own videos - but then distinguishes itself by not censoring content based on viewpoint. Gab will compete against pre-existing platforms such as YouTube, Twitter, Facebook others by appealing to digital consumers who oppose political and/or ideological censorship.

We believe Google’s exclusion of Gab from the Google Play store in April 2017 was arbitrary, anti-competitive, and in clear violation of federal antitrust laws. 

This analysis was made under our narrowest and most conservative interpretation of the Sherman Act, rather than under any broad view of the market power created by network effects or by making free speech an intrinsic good.  Nonetheless, it’s impossible not to consider the larger issues of internet censorship.

Gab has been directly impacted by the digital gatekeepers of the centralized internet as we know it, and we take this to be a dangerous attack on free speech across the board.  We believe those who support free speech on social media should support Gab as a revolutionary new means of communication and connection protected from censorship, and/or intimidation.  

The Internet was an amazing innovation. It was the world's first 'decentralized' communication system. In a simpler time, the Internet's ad-hoc was designed to combat censorship. It was designed to withstand the forces of onerous governments and corporations. But as the Internet matured, the limits of its initial design are becoming obvious. We believe what was once considered decentralized, is no longer decentralized enough. The free and open Internet has become increasingly controlled and closed. The freedom brought to us by the Internet, and the economic expansion it offers, is under threat.

We believe neutrality was the primary driver of the Internet's early success. With neutral access, came open competition. Through this competition, users and businesses were enriched at expense to incumbent powers. But yesterday's maverick enterprises are today's incumbent Goliaths. Much like the incumbents of our past, these institutions are starving newcomers.

Thankfully, there are promising new solutions. With these solutions have come promising new regulatory opportunities. Market forces are changing and the time is right to begin work on a new foundation. What follows is a chance to participate in the development of a bold new platform.

Gab was founded on the basis of pushing the limits to what an alternative social network can achieve. Gab's success has been achieved by pushing these limits. 

Gab's team has a track record of success. Unlike most teams, our competency is earned and real. To provide the features we need, and to ensure equal access by similar service providers. Open standards are what allowed the first generation of Internet apps to grow to the size they are today. Open standards will empower the next generation of services to displace incumbents. We seek to share our growth, with investors, and others in the modern Internet community.

So why is now the time to build this alternative social networking platform? The JOBS Act. Traditional venture capitalists are the usual path to fund large engineering challenges. But the risks of free speech are incompatible with the Venture Capitalists that brought us here. With the JOBS Act, there's now an alternative path. Our solution is to embrace the support of the US government, via the path set forth by the JOBS Act. Our pursuit is noble, and in the tradition of American Free speech standards. By legally soliciting investors, we offer accountability alongside an embrace of American ideals.

Now is the time to renovate the Internet. To fulfill its noble promise. To maintain a system by which everyone can pursue what we believe to be humanity's most virtuous goal: the right to speak freely.

Andrew Torba

CEO, Gab