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I notice that Rumble has gotten A LOT of traction here lately. I find myself using it as much or more than YouTube now.
I was thinking back to every other YouTube challenger and how it was attacked and all but banned off the internet. You know, the usual claims of hate speech, alt-right whatever and radicalizing people.
I wonder why Rumble has been left mostly alone and why it’s still on the App stores?
I am starting to think the radical left mob (in this case led by YouTube/Google) is just biding their time allowing those they ban to migrate to Rumble and at some point in the very near future will make the typical attacks on Rumble possibly blackholing many creators.
So I suspect within the coming months you will start to see many hit pieces written about Rumble. (I figure a catalyst for this might be if their is a red wave during the midterms.) Then Google will ban it from their app store, Apple will follow. Then their infrastructure will be attacked. Whomever they use for DNS, hosting etc will all be contacted and asked why they support hate speech and white supremacy. Being that they are Canadian I suspect the Trudeau gov will get involved as well. It will be a all hands on deck Parler style take down.
As evidence of this all you have to do is look at their wikipedia article. While it is somewhat benign (that won’t be for long) you can already see the start of the slander.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumble_(website)
No clue, what will happen.
I dont go to it or many others because until Congress acts to make the banning or removal of apps like it ILLEGAL and remove the protections for the internet companies and platforms there is every chance it can meet the fate of others.
People say Big Business is not government so it cannot be regulated for speech, however it is not true, it can and has in the past and currently. There are things that cannot be said on Tv or Radio, without fines or loss of licensing, there is things a person cannot say without potential arrest. All Congress would need to to do is Make it a law and use the Commerce Clause of the Constitution to write it and NO COURT could overturn it.
I can promise you had the censoring being done to conservative platforms been done to democrat and liberal ones the Demoncrats in congress would have had a law written on the floor and passed before you could say 1st Amendment.
You make very good points. To your point big tech uses the law when it is advantageous and ignores it when it is not.
I had some hope something might be done when Ted Cruz went after some of the CEO’s but then I quickly realized Cruz (as intelligent as he is) is just establishment dude like the rest and nothing would come of it and nothing did.
Here is how I feel about the big tech part. I think it addresses everything in play.
Let private companies do what they want. If they want to censor, fine. HOWEVER, what is ALSO going on is that they not only collude to censor but they collude to stomp out the competition whenever it rises up. This I believe is illegal under current monopoly laws, just no one does anything about it. If they were not allowed to squash competition through direct bans or funding activism against competitors, then the fair market would do what the fair market does.
My fear here is, just like immigration, the situation is broken because the government allows it to be because it is advantageous. And therefore will NOT fix it no matter how much they go on about it.
But I hope for the best. I hope companies like Rumble, Gab, Bitchute and whatever Elon Musk cooks up will challenge the monopoly.
Of all of them Elon could do something … BUT….. He is also the biggest Troll on the net, Ive met him in person and talked to him, the guys intelligence is Alien Level but he also loves toying with things he see’s that is wrong. So who knows maybe he will or maybe he will troll them enough they fear he will and change their policies… If he wanted to really wanted to He could have and ISP up and on its own fast. He does it as an App Creator platform he could destroy Google and Android…. All depends how much he wants to shake things up, and he does like doing that.
Dude he does have an ISP. Starlink. Now it’s not fully in production yet and it’s just getting off the ground but we shall see how effective it is. But you are right, Elon COULD shake up the monopoly but is he just talking sh!t or is he really planning. Only time will tell.
I knew he had it, but he keeps it in his pocket. I think its a toy to him….. He is the biggest troll there is an knows how to troll brilliantly. I thought about this yesterday after typing and my gut is this. He is testing the waters and knowing his past he already has something up and running but not yet out…. Look at what he has done for people in the Ukraine so they have access…. That tells me it is fully functional.
I would bet the Ukraine is the proving grounds and working out the kinks Alpha or Beta version. If so it will go life Social Media I would say in 6 months or less, possibly more if he wants to keep toying with the elites.
Well lets not forget about something when it comes to Elon vs the elites. He IS an elite. Now if he is down for making all countries a 3rd world so the dictators can rule over the peasants remains to be seen.
But you might be right. He does not tip his hand without there already being something in motion so I don’t doubt what you say is true.
Making the Ukraine the line in the sand for such a platform though makes me cringe because the Ukraine shenanigans is more about foreign countries fighting a proxy war (including the USA) over profit in the Ukraine than it is evil Putin vs good Ukraine. Long story short, there any many bloody hands in that pot not just Putin.
Not sure if you know what he has done for the Ukraine, but in short he is making sure they have ability to the Net and Cell phones.
He is not just an Elite, he is the Elite of all of them, but unlike them they guy is down to earth and normal. He is one I think if you took all his money he would simply smile and rebuild and make it all back like it was just another challenge. He is different, I have been around the typical elites and he did not strike me as one of them. Heck he is more like what happens when you give a redneck money and say go have bubba hold your beer.
Money and power in copious amounts almost always changes people. If it did not corrupt Elon he would be one of the very few in all of time to resist that temptation. I am not saying he is corrupted, just that it’s unlikely he isn’t.
Him doing things for Ukraine could just be a giant virtue signal. Not much different than putting a Ukraine flag in a bio but for the ultra rich. I think too though this is a bad example of his behavior because the Ukraine thing is such a messy situation all around. It clearly is not as simple as Putin bad. Many countries have a hand in this.
You need to go watch many of the video;s with him from years past to present. He is the exception to the rule, really has not changed. He use to interview all his employee;s himself, not sure if he still does, but part of it was he wanted to know them up to an including a fun brain teaser he asked everyone. He is one of the very few when he speaks I listen.
What he was does not mean he still is. Now it’s entirely possible but he would have to be of exceptional character. Again, I am not saying it’s not the case. It would just be ultra rare. But I hope he is. The world could use such a man desperately right now.
I give very few the benefit of the doubt, but there just is none with him. He has a Long career that is a very open book, he just doesnt seem to change, maybe its pure self-confidence or maybe it as he has always said, “He does what he does for the betterment of Humanity” Yes he is a rarity. But come on he created “The Boring Company”