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Issue: August 13, 2021
YouTube deleted Rep Malliotakis’s press conference announcing lawsuit against NY vaccine passports
Malliotakis is pushing back against the attack on civil liberties in NYC.
Republicans still haven't learned to build their own fucking platforms.
I think there is a lot of barely suppressed anger at the CCP in China.
Trump had some bad qualities trying to amass more power than needed
Republicans still haven't learned to build their own fucking platforms. If they keep using left wing owned platforms, not much use to complain when they get censored.
It's criminal syndicate establishment and their dupes versus the rest of the population.
farmer2021 saysTrump had some bad qualities trying to amass more power than needed
Really? I heard that from CNN, but do you have any specific examples of it?
Trump to deploy ‘hundreds’ of federal troops to Chicago
Trump to deploy ‘hundreds’ of federal troops to Chicago
farmer2021 saysTrump to deploy ‘hundreds’ of federal troops to Chicago
The use of the word "troops" in those articles was false. They were federal police protecting federal buildings, no?
They were not the army, nor widely deployed.
Was there anything unconstitutional about having federal police protecting federal buildings from rioters?
Patrick saysSending military
They were not the military.
The censorship and silencing has been working gangbusters for sure on the mass public, but this is just idiocy.
A fast-growing YouTube rival popular with conservative influencers has a new strategy to expand its online audience: Paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to well-known media personalities it says work to “challenge the status quo.”
The Toronto-based upstart Rumble said Thursday that it has struck deals with former U.S. congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, the journalist firebrand Glenn Greenwald and others who had committed to posting their videos first to the site.
Rumble has emerged over the last year as one of the most prominent video sites for right-wing viewers and provocateurs, and it is seeking to bolster its image as a new online home for those who claim they’ve been censored by Big Tech.
The site bans racism and hate speech but has contrasted itself with the Google-owned YouTube by refusing to remove “medical misinformation,” including those casting doubt on vaccines during a pandemic that is surging in many states and has killed more than 4 million people around the world.
Rumble has grown from 1 million active users last summer to roughly 30 million, said the site’s chief executive Chris Pavlovski, a Canadian tech entrepreneur who worked a brief internship at Microsoft and founded a viral-joke website before launching Rumble in 2013. And its traffic has exploded: According to data shared with The Washington Post by the analytics firm Similarweb, visits in the United States to the site grew from about 200,000 in the last week of July 2020 to nearly 19 million last week — a 9,000 percent increase.
Gabbard and Greenwald have expanded their fan bases in recent months by criticizing what they call overly aggressive media censorship in appearances on Fox News and Twitter, where each has more than 1 million followers.
Greenwald said in an interview he sees Rumble as a way “of liberating ourselves from the control and oppression of Big Tech monopolies’ censorship and tyranny.”
“I’m not uncomfortable if people are on there saying things I disagree with. … This is a very recent phenomenon online: We expect our platforms to be cleansed of people we dislike,” he said.
“Unlike YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, which began wildly expanding how the rules are applied for broader society to remove so-called ‘disinformation,’ Rumble just stayed true to the original mission,” he added. “You can’t go on there and say racist stuff, but they don’t monitor for what’s true or false. They really believe in true debate.”
See also https://rumble.com/vl1dok-censorship-of-speech-must-end.html