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Free speech-oriented alternatives like Rumble have grown in popularity as Big Tech companies like YouTube have increasingly censored conservative voices. And Rumble’s newfound popularity has particularly attracted the attention of a couple notable investors.
Hillbilly Elegy author J.D. Vance have both made investments in the free speech-oriented video platform Rumble. Thiel and Vance’s investments have appeared to garner support from other conservatives and right-leaning groups for the platform as well.
The Journal) reported: “The investment is being led by Narya Capital, a Cincinnati-based venture-capital fund co-founded by Mr. Vance and Colin Greenspon, and by Mr. Thiel, who is also a Narya investor, in a personal capacity. Colt Ventures, the family office of Dallas investor and former Trump adviser Darren Blanton, is also part of the investment group.”
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Steven Crowder and his lawyer Bill Richmond sat down on Monday s episode of Louder with Crowder and explained the reality of YouTube s policy enforcement, and how it affects every person who loves the United States Constitution.
Crowder s YouTube channel received a second hard strike on the platform, which means the channel is at serious risk of being deplatformed. Crowder is fighting back because he and his lawyer agree the Louder with Crowder show did not violate YouTube s policies and that YouTube does not enforce policy across its platform equally.
Crowder believes YouTube s dangerous policy enforcement stifles free-flowing ideas and opinions and will potentially discourage content creators who share his point of view.
When I read the May 5
New Republic article entitled “Our Friend, the Trump Propagandist,” by Ronald Radosh and Sol Stern, I thought of the novelist Martin Amis and the late critic Christopher Hitchens. They were best buddies, but on at least one occasion they reviewed each other’s work scathingly. In his 2002 book
Koba the Dread, Amis excoriated Hitchens, a longtime self-styled Trotskyite, for soft-pedaling Stalin’s atrocities; in reply, Hitchens savaged Amis’s book in the
Atlantic. You might expect that disagreement on such a topic would have led to an incurable rift; yet Amis and Hitchens remained close, and the former ended up delivering the eulogy at the latter’s funeral.