Big Tech censors losing power
YouTube is back to its old tricks, strengthening Sen. Ted Cruz’s argument that Big Tech censorship is the “single biggest threat we have to free speech in this country.”
But, comedic media personality, Steven Crowder, may have just struck the fatal blow to YouTube and other Big Tech platforms. In 2020, Crowder’s streaming show — Louder with Crowder (LWC) — set a new record for election night coverage.
How did YouTube respond?
They pulled the stream down in the middle of Crowder’s coverage.
Two years later, YouTube decided they weren’t willing to risk Crowder’s election coverage garnering yet another massive following. Just days before the election, YouTube suspended Crowder’s account — removing all hopes of another record-setting LWC election stream.
Or so they thought.
Crowder urged followers to watch the 2022 midterm election coverage on YouTube competitor Rumble. Spoiler alert — the stream was huge. Crowder clocked more than 300,000 concurrent viewers, a measure of how many viewers are streaming at any given moment.
Crowder’s success brought the platform’s total concurrent live stream viewership above 500,000.
The stream had a star-studded cast of political figures and cultural icons, including Sen. Ted Cruz, Kari Lake, Ben Shapiro and Michael Knowles. Rumble celebrated the success of the stream on Twitter.
“BREAKING NEWS: Steven Crowder (@scrowder) has already registered over 3M+ total views on Rumble for his election coverage show last night.”
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On Rumble, Crowder has just over 1 million subscribers and still managed to break through the 3 million plus viewer record. Content creators everywhere know what this accomplishment means, and Big Tech can’t afford to look the other way.
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Rumble is a worthy competitor to YouTube and it is not constrained by a liberal bias. I have been adding Rumble videos to posts recently with great success.
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But this isn’t a good-faith effort to weed out untruths. YouTube has become a place that censors true content but traffics in official and quasi-official deceptions. It’s become indistinguishable from a state censorship bureau....
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