The main issue is that GAB doesn't provide an anonymous way to pay that fee if you wanted to as mentioned in one of the comments in the threads.
> [I didn't threaten you or your family. I was willing to pay anonymously to stay on Gab. But you FORCE me, in your application process, to give you MY PERSONAL information. Why? How do you NOT see that killing anonymity is killing free speech?](https://gab.com/JasTheGooz/posts/112027613360105087)
[Archive #1](https://web.archive.org/web/20240305090246/https://gab.com/a/posts/112022596686222471)
[Archive #2](https://archive.ph/LzSCR)
And his answer to the backlash that quote has caused:
> Let me offer some clarity on what I meant by this post and what I did not mean by this post.
> What I did **not mean** by this: free users who have been critical of our decision.
> **What I did mean by this**: The people who are here for the sole purpose of destroying this platform. Both foreign and domestic operatives whose only objective is to drive people away from Gab and destroy, divide, and defame Gab/me by any means necessary. Their time here is up. I'm no longer paying to host people here who want my family and my business dead.
> I sincerely apologize if you are a free user who thought this post was about you and I should have been more clear about who this was targeted at. As I mentioned in my latest podcast episode I've been dealing with thousands of accounts posting threats, doxes, and defamatory content aimed at both myself and my family which has me on edge and ready to go to war against the subversive trash I described above.
https://gab.com/a/posts/112027579488448679
(post is archived)