The Canadian-based alternative video platform to YouTube has elected to sever access to their content in France, after the government requested that they remove content they felt was Russian-based news sources and disinformation.
CEO Chris Pavlovski made a statement on Twitter and other social media outlets, that Rumble has decided to cut French viewer’s access instead rather than cancel content creators on their platforms.
The French Government has demanded that Rumble (@rumblevideo) block Russian news sources. Like @elonmusk, I won’t move our goal posts for any foreign government.
Rumble will turn off France entirely (France isn’t material to us) and we will challenge the legality of this demand.
The company updated their terms of service to reflect this move.
Users with unpopular views are free to access our platform on the same terms as our millions of other users.
This decision will not have a material effect on our business, as France represents less than one percent of our users.
The terms of service read
Glenn Greenwald, a co-founder of the tech and analyst outlet The Intercept, praised Pavlovski’s steadfast posture. Greenwald now currently contributes to Rumble, who left The Intercept in 2020 after this own staff refused to release a piece dealing with media and big tech censorship.
Think how important this story is. France, like all EU states, *legally barred* any platform from airing RT or other Russian outlets even if those platforms with to. It’s legally required to censor it. France demanded Rumble obey, if though Rumble isn’t a French company….
If Rumble obeyed France’s censorship order – like Big Tech firms often do – it’d mean Americans could only access voices and views which foreign governments (EU, China, Iran, etc.) permitted to be aired. Thankfully, Rumble told France to fuck itself:
When Big Tech began censoring, liberals suddenly adopted libertarian theories to insist that private companies could do whatever they want, and it’s not censorship. But this is *pure censorship*: EU *legally banning* anyone from airing what they dislike:
Rather than obey France’s censorship order, Rumble turned its services off for France and will sue. If French people are happy being blocked from information Macron and EU want to ban, good for them. But France should have no right to impose its censorship laws on the world.
This is why I’m so proud to be working more with Rumble and why I believe in their free speech commitment. The easy thing to do would be to obey French politicians and remove anyone foreign governments demand They’d rather lose France then submit to them.
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It’s kind of ironic when you think about it: Facebook and Twitter are condemned for censoring people, and even entire countries at one point, but when Rumble does it is cheered for.
Rumble and other alternative platforms will continue to grow in size and reach, especially, as I believe will happen, will be gobbled up by these larger sharks and investors; and Rumble will eventually be just another front group touting free speech, when in reality they will become the very things they swore they would never do. Even now, many of the people that are promoted on Rumble all time – Tulsi Gabbard, Russel Brand, Dan Bongino, Dr. John Campbell, and more – are very much controlled opposition and still very much are apart of mainstream media and ‘the system.’
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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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There is more and more censorship as time goes by… Thank you for the update Jacob!
*Note:
Pour tous ceux et celles qui avaient l’habitude de visiter ma chaîne Rumble, j’ai maintenant créé une chaîne Bitchute. Vous pouvez cliquer sur mon nom juste ici ou aller dans l’onglet Foreign Translations. à bientôt!
Jacob, I’m not sure if it’s just my browser (Firefox on Win XP), but your video, The New Nazi Youth and some of Bryan’s Rumble videos relating to the scamdemic: Prior Knowledge Of Mass Vaccination Death, Proof That Jesus Christ Is AGAINST Vaccination, BOMBSHELL On The Covid DEATH Shot!, Baloney Virus And The Death Of Free Will, The Planned Covid-19 Vaccine SCAM and The Papal Pandemic Interdict cannot be played on my end. I was thinking maybe Rumble is also selectively censoring videos that can hit home with people, unless it’s just my browser and plugins.
That’s odd. I had heard that a lot of people were already having trouble watching Bryan’s Rumble videos. Would not be shocked if we are being shadow banned.
Yeah. I did find a website months ago that enabled me to download yours and those videos from Bryan’s Rumble channel.
It’s the same with all of these “Alternate Media” platforms, they pretend to be all about anti-censorship until they can compete with the big leagues, then once they have a mixed audience, they start chipping away at those whom they despise, even those it’s those very ones whom they despise that they built their platform upon.
If you want to use them, then use them when and where you can, and when you can no longer use them, move on. Just don’t get too comfortable with any platform because if you speak for the truth, they will come to despise you.
And don’t be too surprised if they start preemptively banning Christians even if they keep all Christian discussions off platform and use a platform strictly for secular topics, ie homesteading, prepping, warning about financial pitfalls such as bitcoin and debt…you get the idea. If not this very moment, there will come a time when a social media company will have such a great access to private data that they can determining who is a Bible believing Christian within a margin of error of about five percent or less.
We haven’t had trouble with it here. But I did notice that folks who typically post twice daily haven’t been on either on youtube or on Rumble, to which they took to backing-up after youtube started playing their game with them. And here, right after their high holiday Sanhain and worship-death-day, they started pushing harder & more firmly, reversing the lull before the storm.
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That fowl bird has two wings, and after the Republicans supposedly come in strong with their ‘clean sweep’…in November, then January, I fear their organized evil & purpose driven deceit, and their ‘efficiency’ at dealing with ‘resisters’ & nonconformists, may ramp up considerably.
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They are combining fascism & communism into communitarianism in their philosospeak & self-justification, pagan evolutionary humanist idolatry, using ‘Christian’ speak frosting where it’s ‘useful’. Putting the finishing touches to their diabolical antichrist tyranny in plain speak. Suddenly, even propaganda is ‘good’….to the ‘right’; and after the ‘leftist’ Obama rammed through that bill making it legal for the State to use propaganda domestically, against the American people.
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(Which showed those learning of these things both that they’d already been using propaganda non-domestically while pretending to be just & good before their own people….just like any banana-republic prop-up. But were now preparing to take off the gloves. There were a few lonely voices amongst the brethren at the time warning of these things though few took heed.)
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Most of the cronies are still deluded, not realizing as they sell out others hoping to be ‘survivors’, appeasing and conforming, that they will be amongst the ‘collateral damage’ themselves in the end. But, then the Lord will take care of the ‘gods’, the ‘survivors’, and masters of craft in ways far beyond the scope of their carefully laid ‘plans’ and schemes, or their ability to control.
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We must do what we can, but be ready to stand to the death, giving testimony & the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ according to the scriptures, with assurance of grace & heaven….no matter what they do to us, & plainly warning the offenders that their apparent ‘victory’ only has them proving what they are as they go about fulfilling the Book they so hate to a ‘t’: therefore making their end in Hell & the Lake of Fire, witnessed by the living saints whose lives they made miserable & whose lives they snuffed out, that much more certain.
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A man reaps what he sows, though our just God is also thankfully merciful…else who could be saved? For all have sinned and fallen short. Our Lord is not karmic, knowing men are but dust & even having shared in our infirmities (not sin, but that weakness & tendency, latent within all of us bearing this corruptible flesh). Our Rock is not as their rock, and his word is not as theirs either: his word is sharper than any two-edged sword, dealing also with soul and spirit.
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The events of this past week showed me that being faithful to do so, even imperfectly, brought strength & blessing, even when it changed nothing in terms of earthly circumstance. We have the witness of the brethren, the martyrs…and most recently, those under fascism and communism both who so faced death.
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Don’t let your ‘preps’ be without preparation for that should the Lord allow it. I’m coming to believe that as with all his written revelation, that given from the living word written in fleshy tables of the heart, comes with power accomplishing the Lord’s purposes: either to the salvation or just condemnation of those turned from truth. They still recognize its authority even against their desire & willful resistance of it, rebellion against it. Without excuse as we were.
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Pray…and speak God’s truth which hirelings & the fearful, conforming & prostituted will not, even if they still know it. There is that occasional flash of the eye, even fear preceding anger, even amongst the most highly initiated & given over, the ‘professionals’, the ‘certified’, that the cut of God’s word is hitting home. Cooley preached on this recently, concerning the difference between those ‘pricked’ in the heart, and those ‘cut’ by it. We have our disagreements, but I believe he is a saved man of God, and that the word bears him out on this when proven against it.
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You still can’t trust the ‘grudging respect’ from such, or turn your back on them so long as still spiritual swine lest they turn & rend you, and ripping their cover causes them to go more covert & deceitful like those spirits they have & the one served. But there is power & blessing from God, renewing the inner man, in calling them out for what they are, and publicly, meekly: with mindsoul in control over emotion & flesh. Sin lieth at the door.
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This is probably why the Disney witch spoonful of sugar & demoralization ‘art’ conditioning of the fake ‘love’ and ‘charity’ and ‘works’ positivity was so constant & relentless for so long: corrupting & defiling many imaginations & hearts, lying the ground….fertilizing it with fornication & love of mammon…the subtle deceit of the idolatrous humanist ‘gospel of nice’. By that & the public school conditioning, even the homeschooling communities that were otherwise faithful were leavened: evil communications corrupt good character and a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. Lack of caution with peers not of the faith, and missing the truth that blessed is he that walketh NOT in the counsel of the ungodly, the idolatrous. It doesn’t matter if they call their made-up idol, Jesus. Samaria & the northern kingdom tried that one & it didn’t work out so well. God sent the Assyrian against them so that what remained was as two legs or a piece of an ear out of the mouth of the lion.
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Still, the visible Egyptian/Assyrian alliance went down at the battle of Carchemish. Down to the Babylonian, Elamite confederacy. The spirits & powers behind them remained. Now they stir and unite visibly again, this time all of them against the people of God. But this time, the Lord himself, the true lion of Judah, & not that other usurping and pretending, will be putting them down for a thousand years, & then forever. Psalm 37 & 38; Ezekiel 37 & 38.
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Pity those who have their best lives now in this wicked & dying, & by hook or by crook, doing evil that good might come & deceived that is ‘wisdom’….their undivided light & darkness merged, their yin and yang, their sins & trespasses yet upon them, un-repented of. They have despised the inheritance, their heritage, for pottage, turning back to the vomit & wallows of corruption, of idolatries. There must yet be some yet remaining who will yet hear & turn, even with the mystery of iniquity here & working, else he who letteth would be removed.
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The best, and beyond even our imagining, is yet to come for the child of God. Read the word & ponder that, meditate upon it. We may not know it all, the precise timing & unfolding of it all, some seemingly of dual fulfillment yet future with regard to Gog and Magog as per Revelation 20: but we can know sufficiently…and knowing the one who gave it & quickens it to us: we can stand. Our lord is faithful and true. Theirs is not.
Do you know what censorship is? The total eclipse of development in Russia at all points of the globalist plan for world social transformation. And this blackout is happening cooperatively between the mass media, which never criticize Russia for it, and the vast majority of the alternative media, which support Russia, without even mentioning these developments in Russia (which are just like those in the West, in Australia and China). And almost all alternative audiences are not interested in this.
Just think of the amount of material that comes out daily in the alt-media regarding Western devilish tendencies and developments imposed on Western peoples. All over the world, there are tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of articles a day. An incalculable total number. There is also a lot of material on Chinese technocratic and transhumanist programs. (Although now many are madly saying that China is fighting the globalists by advocating another, humane path to development. Because they are opposed by the evil Western elites.) And Russia? Nothing about Russia; everything is covered with a dense fog and a grave silence on the part of these alt-media that are supposed to reveal the truth.
I, who am a humble reader, can publish hundreds or even thousands of quite long comments on what is happening in Russia, with sources for everything. From which everyone can conclude whether the image created of Russia in the West – above all in the last 7-8 months – is correct. Regardless of the USA, Canada, Australia, Europe, China..
We know, and many agree, that Western elites are the measure of evil. We know, and many agree, that Ukraine has been ruled by mafia elites for many years and has been turned into a hellhole, a haven for crime, including trafficking of women and children. But that doesn’t mean that what’s happening in Russia isn’t happening. At least it shouldn’t, because the truth is the truth, regardless of the context. But, it turns out, massively not so…
This is madness, friends, and its scale and absurdity lead me to believe that it is not accidental and leads to sinister goals.