I think Robert Barnes is a investor in Rumble. Could we be getting a bald vs beard slapfight?
I dunno if he's an investor, but they specifically brought him and Viva Frei in to re-write the ToS and turn the place into a libertarian playground.
As it exists now, I'm almost positive even Null and Metokur could successfully move to Rumble if Odysee ever shit the bed.
That strongly hints that the deal fell through over things like money and promotion. Not censorship.
"I'm happy to let a single evil megacorp have total control over information dissemination on the Internet if it means I don't have to bookmark a different website."
These faggots are why we're hurtling headlong toward a cyberpunk dystopia infinitely lamer than anything William Gibson ever imagined.
A lot of Nick's fans are the "nigger in the ocean" that Saint Terry spoke of. There's a few of them I know that are fine enough individuals, but it seems like a lot of them (especially
these days, with them cheering on the degeneracy) are exceptionally low IQ.
There's two sides to the stupid here though. Nick... the guy who
famously never likes being told what to do, and gets MATI at anyone who tries... didn't make a deal happen despite the fact he's got zero "job security" on Youtube. Even if his account has been restored, its likely fleeting.
Smart money says he's gonna have to reexamine this decision sooner or later. Musk taking over Twitter is great, but Susan is still at Youtube. The streaming is where the money is at. Not Twitter slapfights.
I still have my reservations against rumble since they went public though as that can open them up to other shenanigans.
This is an issue, yes. Never put too much faith in publicly traded corporations.
I'm pretty sure Mathew Prince didn't just magically decide one day to kick us off Cloudflare. It's more nuanced than that. What likely happened is major shareholders heard a cacophony of wining from Twitter, thought their investment was in danger based on "Twitter feels" (because a lot of rich people are actually quite
dumb, when you get right down to it), and pressured Prince into pulling the plug.
Null gets his share of shit, but KF survives
BECAUSE it's dictatorship of an autistic stubborn slobbermutt who has one simple vision for the site, and has no compunction with telling people who want to mess with that to fuck off. Imagine if Null had ever brought in outside investors. We probably would have been dead years ago.