BitChute

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BitChute
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Web address BitChute.com
Type of site
 Video hosting service
Registration Optional
Available in English
Created by Ray Vahey
Launched January 3, 2017; 8 years ago (2017-01-03)
Current status Active

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BitChute is a video hosting service that uses peer-to-peer WebTorrent technology[1] in order to diffuse, redistribute, and ease bandwidth and issues of centralized streaming[citation needed] and to make it much more difficult for governments and corporations to censor, disrupt, and/or block access to videos after they are uploaded and sharing.[citation needed]

BitChute has been touted as being a safe-haven for alt-right and conservative content creators, whose YouTube channels have been shut down.[2][3]

What corporate mainstream media won't tell you is that they target the "alt-right" (authentic conservatives) and use this so-called "legitimate" censorship as cover to also censor more authentic threats to the establishment that they don't even want the public to be aware of, much less knowledgeable about, such as anarchism, agorism, voluntaryism, The Libertarian Party, The Green Party, progressive left (the authentic left, not to be confused with the corporate engineered SJW alt-left of no substance nor platform, or even sheepdog sellout Bernie Sanders), authentic-democratic worker cooperatives a.k.a. worker directed enterprises, antiestablishmentarianism, anti-Empiricism, anti-Zionism, anti-globalism, anti-totalitarianism, anti-war, anti-interventionism, anti-military-occupation, peace movements, peace activists, animal rights activists, eco-activism, environmental activists, historical revisionism, false flag analysis, rising police states military occupation and state terror criticism, skepticism of anything, truthers (aka truth seekers), trutherism, and peaceful non-exploitative open-source alternative solutions like BitChute, WebTorrent, DTube, IPFS, Filecoin, InfoGalactic, Gab.ai, or the Silk Road (marketplace), a scapegoat over-persecuted authentic free market.[citation needed]

Due to the rapid growth of the site, it has become a target for censorship, with SJW infiltration from YouTube and other mainstream left-wing sites becoming more and more rampant on the site. Comments opposing Zionism are often censored, and videos opposing it deleted, but comments from far-left and anti-white users (most of whom are possibly "hasbara" and/or "wumao" trolls), as well as videos made from an anti-white perspective, are generally not deleted from the site, which has led some people to believe that BitChute is simply controlled opposition,[4] for which it has been nicknamed "JewChute". Some members who have been banned from BitChute have moved to other alternatives, such as Odysee and the generally far-right WorldTruth Videos, though Odysee has also been described as controlled opposition by some of these very critics.

History

The BitChute logo used from 2017 to 2018.
BitChute Homepage.
Main page during the brief SPKOUT rebranding.

The company was founded by Ray Vahey. He described it as a way to avoid hard censorship and demonetization ("soft" corporate censorship) by established services like YouTube.[1][5]

Posted on January 3, 2017, "This is the first video on #BitChute" was the first sample video and test of the uploading process featuring a woman using a tablet.[6]

In September 2017, conservative internet celebrities like Paul Joseph Watson, Lauren Southern, and Kevin J. Johnston who runs FreedomReport.ca, in conjunction with Michale Arana who runs The Arana Nation, said they were considering switching to the site in response to selected political videos soft-censored on YouTube by being "demonetized",[7] their propaganda softening term for theft and denial of livelihood attacking independent content producers and critics of establishment systems. Southern has automatically mirrored her YouTube channel on BitChute since March 23, 2017.[8][9]

In January 2018, "Styxhexenhammer666" was the most subscribed channel with over 7,100 subscribers.[citation needed] By March 2018, "Styxhexenhammer666" had over 11,300 subscribers.[citation needed]

In February 2018, BitChute briefly changed their name to SPKOUT. After an intense backlash, they reverted to their old name after only a couple weeks.(dates?)[citation needed]

In March 2018, the site was redesigned and got a new logo.[citation needed]

Technology

BitChute is based on the peer-to-peer WebTorrent system; a JavaScript torrenting program that can run in a web browser.[10] Users watching a video also seed it. Despite similar functionally, WebTorrent is not compatible with BitTorrent[11] since WebTorrent uses the same protocol as BitTorrent but uses a different transport. However, the WebTorrent Desktop stand alone version is able to bridge the WebRTC-based WebTorrent and TCP/UDP-based BitTorrent serverless networks.[12]

The BitChute website acts as a front end and portal for WebTorrent. When users upload a video it is converted to a WebTorrent and given a page on BitChute's website.[citation needed] BitChute acts as a peer of last resort (if no other user is seeding a video).[citation needed]

Comment Freely

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Comment Freely, very much like Gab Dissenter, under BitChute on GitHub, is an open-source[13] comments platform that can be used in any new or existing software project such as alternative social media sites, blogs, news sites and other applications.[citation needed]

Features

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(This content was copy pasted directly from the Comment Freely website and is here as a starting point from which to be modified.)
  • Real Time - See new comments when they are posted or know when they are being written as you would within Instant Messaging and without needing to refresh the page.
  • Socially Interactive - Follow your friends and see what else they are commenting on, vote up and down and reply in-line.
  • Pluggable - Plug directly into your own projects and websites, designed to integrate so that you won't need a high level of technical expertise. Integrate logins so that it's a seamless part of any project.
  • Meme It Up - Insert images, animations, videos, and other common Internet interactions into the conversation. Users will be able to earn badges that are associated with their profile.
  • Administration - Block spam, manage comments and users and assign administrative roles to your users so they can help. E.g. a video channel owner will be able to administrate for their own channel.
  • Internet-Scale - Allow millions of conversations to happen simultaneously.

Reception

There has been conflict between YouTube and creators over the content of some videos uploaded. The company responded in some cases by banning creators, blocking their videos or channel "demonetization", their propaganda softening term for theft and denial of livelihood attacking independent content producers and critics of establishment systems. In turn some creators, including popular creators such as "Computing Forever" (Dave Cullen)[14] and conservative content producers have started BitChute channels.[15][16]

YouTube is a private corporation and they don't share their internal processes much less admit how much government access, assistance, cooperation, funding, and instructions they receive. Freedom of speech does not apply to private corporations, however it does apply to corporations working for the government. The corrupt system thrives through loopholes and back channels.[citation needed]

In addition to the usual condemnations from progressive organizations and personnel for hosting content they consider to be politically unacceptable under the mainstream cultural consensus,[17] BitChute has also been criticised for censoring several right-wing channels, including the removal of the Nordic Resistance Movement (a Scandinavian National Socialist political party) from its platform. The party released a statement in response:

"BitChute has decided to remove the Nordic Resistance Movement from its platform, citing the decision of an oppressive and plutocratic regime in its efforts to paint it as a terrorist organization. The Nordic Resistance Movement is a legitimate political party in Sweden which performs a wide variety of activism and community outreach throughout the Nordic nations. Such a precedent endangers all free speech content on the platform, as it marks yet another platform which has capitulated to Zionist organizations such as Hope Not Hate who seek to stifle any and all opposition to their agenda. We stand with our Nordic brethren and encourage others to follow their media channel at Odysee, as well as their Telegram channel to see their latest action."

However, there has been less censorship of left-wing channels in comparison.

See also

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