Rumble's Soft Censorship - Rumble hides videos if the author does not consent to advertising. If you upload a video, they will not let people find it through search.... unless you monetize the video. They might think this is strange, to not be motivated by money, but I don't want ads on my videos.

submitted by In-the-clouds from self.SocialMedia

This policy means there is a "dark web" on Rumble, where videos exist but no one finds them. If the videos do not appear in a Rumble search, they will receive less views. Only those that are given a link in some other form will even know the video exists.

This policy also acts as a form of soft censorship or shadow banning. If Rumble does not approve the video for monetization, for whatever reason, then the video will not appear in a search result.

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[–]Drewski 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I remember another channel was complaining about being censored in search results, but I don't think it's censorship so much as Rumble's search function just sucks. Rumble has been pretty good about resisting censorship in my view.

[–]In-the-clouds[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You have been quiet here the past few weeks and I wondered about you. I'm glad to see you are still here.