'Free speech' social platform Gab goes offline after fatal Pittsburgh shooting

Gab has gone offline.

The self-described "free speech social media platform" is taking time off the internet, after landing under the spotlight when the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect was revealed to be a poster and user on the site.

Gab posted a message on its homepage, announcing that the site will be "inaccessible for a period of time" as it works "around the clock" to transition a new hosting provider.

The platform has been banned by PayPal, and fellow online payment service Stripe is looking to cut off the site. Gab's new hosting service, Joyent, reportedly will suspend the site from 9 a.m. ET on Monday, Oct. 29.

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Gab's domain registrar, GoDaddy, has also asked for the platform to take its business elsewhere.

"We have informed Gab.com that they have 24 hours to move the domain to another provider, as they have violated our terms of service," GoDaddy told Mashable in a statement.

"In response to complaints received over the weekend, GoDaddy investigated and discovered numerous instances of content on the site that both promotes and encourages violence against people."

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Publishing platform Medium has also recently suspended Gab's account, under which the social site had made a statement stating that it "unequivocally disavows and condemns all acts of terrorism and violence." This statement has now been made unavailable.

A Medium spokesperson told Mashable that it would not comment on individual accounts that are found to be in violation of its rules.

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UPDATE: Oct. 30, 2018, 12:22 p.m. AEDT Added Medium's response.