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- https://www.bitchute.com/channel/white-genocide/
Free speech means no one is forced to do business with nazis.
If you’re genuinely interested in understanding the principle of free speech, I recommend this as an introduction:
This is a great example of how 'just set up your own platform' may not be the best solution to issues of censorship and what not. Because if you do, then the platforms you need for things like payment processing are also likely to ban your service for much the same reasons as before, and neutral alternatives to them are few and far between. Still, I guess this does provide a good use case for cryptocurrencies and wha…
but they didn't set up their own platform, instead they relied on patreon.
How do you replace one platform when all the others conspire to prevent you from doing so? You can't just bootstrap your own internet... at some level you're using other's stuff
Would anybody like to fill us in on what BitChute is, in theory and / or in practice?
Would anybody like to fill us in on what BitChute is, in theory and / or in practice?
You might imagine that with how endemic some people allege YouTube's censorship is, there would be a variety of interesting and censored content on BitChute.
Which is why when you check the front page you get and click popular you get... FOX News clips for posting on Voat (a far-right reddit clone), conspiracy theories about the magnetic poles, conspiracy theories about the Mueller investigation, conspiracy theories about the Mexican border, a far-right news source complaining about Jeff Flake, neo-nazi videos, Brazilian spam, anti-semitism, people complaining about YouTube censorship, etc.
This is the best thing that could've happened to them. Otherwise I would've never heard of Bitchute, now they're going to be famous.
What is BitChute and why should I care that it's being suspended by Patreon? If I go to the front page of this site I just see a default Wordpress sidebar; there is one post that shows upon the front page, and it is password protected.
This is a great example of how 'just set up your own platform' may not be the best solution to issues of censorship and what not. Because if you do, then the platforms you need for things like payment processing are also likely to ban your service for much the same reasons as before, and neutral alternatives to them are few and far between. Still, I guess this does provide a good use case for cryptocurrencies and wha…
but they didn't set up their own platform, instead they relied on patreon.
edit: Looks like they're more than just a "website", but both this site and the platform site really don't do a good job of explaining that.