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Re: BitChute Suspended By Patreon

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Post by TheForumTroll »

userbinator wrote: post #24
orf wrote: post #11

As always, seems to be full of right-wing anti-semitism, fake news and outlandish conservative conspiracy theories. Just check the 'popular' tab: "Welcome to "Your" Zionist Occupied Government", "EXPOSED: Jewish Donors Granted "Access To NYPD HQ", "How the Globalists Stole Our Home". All uploaded within the last hour. - https://www.bitchute.com/channel/white-genocide/ - https://www.bitchute.com/channel/zionistreport/…

Any service that strongly supports free speech will naturally attract the extremists which have been displaced from elsewhere. Right or left doesn't matter, it's just the result of the current political climate.

Then the right should have no need to use the service?

Re: BitChute Suspended By Patreon

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Post by cft »

buboard wrote: post #9
CM30 wrote: post #6

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.

They did not lay their own fiber either. Where do you draw that boundary?

Re: BitChute Suspended By Patreon

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Post by how_to_bake »

Izkata wrote: post #16
Joeboy wrote: post #10

Would anybody like to fill us in on what BitChute is, in theory and / or in practice?

It's a decentralized YouTube alternative.

I'm just going to leave a PeerTube link here as I think it is a better example of a decentralized youtube. https://joinpeertube.org/

BitChute annoys me because the video streaming is decentralized through bittorrent tech, but the repository of videos is totally dependent and centralized with BitChute.

Re: BitChute Suspended By Patreon

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Post by IAmEveryone »

jim-jim-jim wrote: post #39
notafraudster wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

BitChute is a YouTube replacement made for people who are "Very Worried About YouTube's Censorship". It uses WebTorrent for distribution to solve the upfront server costs of running a video service. Cute idea. 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 a…

That's the weird thing about free speech. Any community explicitly built upon it tends to exclusively attract those in _immediate_ need of it: conspiracy theorists and racists for the most part. There's still a (naive?) liberal side to me that thinks free expression, even of profoundly stupid ideas, might be a net good for society, but I don't want to be a part of a community that is innundated with nasty weirdos who…

Yeah, it’s almost as if the decisions by YouTube, Patreon et al aren’t, like, the end of civilization as we know it.

Re: BitChute Suspended By Patreon

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Post by IAmEveryone »

beginningguava wrote: post #38
notafraudster wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

BitChute is a YouTube replacement made for people who are "Very Worried About YouTube's Censorship". It uses WebTorrent for distribution to solve the upfront server costs of running a video service. Cute idea. 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 a…

Regardless of what it is now you should be happy it exists, look at present day Turkey and 1960s Iran to see how fast freedoms can be stripped by changes in government. Tomorrow it could be leftists being censored. The Communist Control Act is still around in the US, just hasn't been enforced. There's effectively nothing to stop Trump from calling his enemies communists and throwing them in jail and with his stacked…

How exactly are goat and whatever bitchute is saving us from Trump turning totalitarian?

As opposed to, you know, the New York Times or even the Supreme Court.

Re: BitChute Suspended By Patreon

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Post by cannedslime »

orf wrote: post #11

As always, seems to be full of right-wing anti-semitism, fake news and outlandish conservative conspiracy theories. Just check the 'popular' tab: "Welcome to "Your" Zionist Occupied Government", "EXPOSED: Jewish Donors Granted "Access To NYPD HQ", "How the Globalists Stole Our Home". All uploaded within the last hour. - https://www.bitchute.com/channel/white-genocide/ - https://www.bitchute.com/channel/zionistreport/…

> "Welcome to "Your" Zionist Occupied Government"

What is AIPAC?

Re: BitChute Suspended By Patreon

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Post by rsynnott »

AnaniasAnanas wrote: post #31
notafraudster wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

BitChute is a YouTube replacement made for people who are "Very Worried About YouTube's Censorship". It uses WebTorrent for distribution to solve the upfront server costs of running a video service. Cute idea. 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 a…

> a far-right reddit clone I was under the impression that voat was created due to censorship that reddit applied on all kinds of things, including anime porn for example. Not exclusively for far-right content. I certainly do not doubt that most of bitchute's or voat's users are far-right however. It only makes sense that the groups that are censored from other platforms move to censorship-free* alternatives. That be…

There were three major exoduses of reddit people to voat and similar sites, years apart. The first was when reddit cracked down on paedophilia, the second when it nuked fatpeoplehate and associated subreddits, the third when it banned and/or hid some of the more egregiously Nazi-oriented subreddits. The third was probably the largest and most influential, but yeah, there’s other horrible stuff on there.

Of course, all of this makes for a charming community.

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