Twitter now blocking all Bitchute links

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[–]AFutureConcern 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

Every year the censorship gets worse and worse. I know it's going to continue but my heart sinks every time it happens. They won't leave us alone until we are completely silenced or dead. We can't even have the middle ground of a free platform, let alone widespread adoption of our ideas.

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    [–]AFutureConcern 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    The internet was largely ignored by those in power until the 2016 election. "Meme magic" really was real and the unprecedented ability to spread right-wing memes throughout the internet made them uncomfortable. Huge sums of money were donated to "the resistance" to stop any nationalist thought rising again, even tepid all-bark-no-bite civic nationalism from Trump.

    They know what they are doing. Mid-wit level discourse on censorship focuses on "the Streisand effect" and other surface-level critiques. The people in charge of censorship at YouTube, Twitter and pro-censorship groups like the ADL and SPLC have all the data they need to accurately map out the network links between dissidents, and to measure the effect of their censorship on the discourse.

    Do you think it's a coincidence that they banned Stefan Molyneux, an anarcho-capitalist who's not really alt-right? No - he was very popular, and formed a central node in the network of the right. From his twitter profile you'd always see /ourguys/ in the comments.

    They have rightly seen that BitChute is a growing platform that provides a hub for dissidents to share ideas and comment below the videos - just like YouTube 4 years ago. So they engaged in the following process:

    • Research BitChute, find damning examples of "hateful" speech that normies would find objectionable
    • Run articles in mainstream media complaining about this "hateful" website so people's first impression is tainted, even though BitChute is a free speech platform, open to all
    • Pressure big sites that feature many links to BitChute to consider blocking or suppressing those links, citing the mainstream media articles [you are here]
    • Pressure payment processors, domain registrars, web hosting services - anything you can find, really - to drop BitChute, putting as much pressure on them as you can from as many angles as you can, citing the articles each time
    • At this point the user base of BitChute will become "concentrated" with dissidents; nobody wants to run a gaming channel on a platform that's censored everywhere. Use the fact that BitChute now exclusively contains dissident material as the basis for further smears, and repeat until it's irrelevant.

    [–]send_nasty_stuffNational Socialist 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Thoughtful and accurate analysis. Thanks for sharing. I think the near future is going to look more like dissidents being data horders and setting up shop on multiple new platforms using mp4 and webm type short clips (slowly moving to fully federated platforms that even governments won't be able to block). If those get taken down we don't care because we have them all backed up in the personal mesh network that is online white nationalism. So many people are now connected into this that we've become anti fragile and it scares the shit out of them. We have so many devoted passionate people in this movement that it's really an honor to be a part of what ever this is. I'll be a bit open and honest but doing research and staying connected to the alt right these last few years have given me a reason for hanging around. I figured out why I'm here and I think a lot of other people feel the same way. Nothing will stop us. We will not be demoralized. We will keep going and when we blot out someone else will take our place.

    [–]probgoingtohell 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

    2019

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      [–]probgoingtohell 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

      2019 was the year the mass wave bans started.

      [–]EuropeanAwakening 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      2017 actually.

      [–]bug-in-recovery 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      FTN still has a YT account somehow.