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Old 03-06-2022, 05:40 PM
 
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The YouTube alternative Rumble, which opened a headquarters in Longboat Key, continues to broadcast RT, a Russian state-owned outlet.

https://news.google.com/articles/CBM...S&ceid=US%3Aen

SARASOTA, FL — Rumble, a YouTube alternative that recently opened a headquarters in Longboat Key, will continue to broadcast RT on its video platform despite a worldwide crackdown on the Russian state-controlled news network.

Since Russia invaded Ukraine more than a week ago, major technology companies have removed or restricted the network, including the Roku Channel Store and DirecTV, which both removed the English-language RT America from its offerings, according to CNBC.

Meta Platforms, which operates Facebook, and Twitter have also restricted access to the network, Reuters reported. Facebook and Instagram have designated RT as “Russian state-controlled media.”

The online video-sharing platform based in Toronto and popular among conservative influencers and right-wing viewers, the Washington Post reported.

Former President Donald Trump turned to Rumble after being banned from multiple social media platforms, including Facebook and Twitter. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis also uses the site to share state news with residents. Other prominent figures on the site include U.S. representatives Matt Gaetz and Devin Nunes, Sen. Rand Paul, former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, Sean Hannity, and Ben Shapiro.

Rumble estimates that it will invest about $50 million in the Sarasota area and Florida over the next several years.

Sarasota County lured the company to the area with an incentive grant worth about $825,000, according to SRQ magazine.

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Old 03-07-2022, 02:38 AM
 
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Maybe there is a link to the recent increase in hate speech and the city embracing and financially incentivizing right wing propaganda media. What could possibly be wrong with encouraging this kind of media company to grow and prosper in Sarasota?

And we all NEED to hear Putin’s side,
https://www.google.com/amp/s/money.y...204631299.html
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Old 03-07-2022, 03:21 AM
 
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So? It’s a free country! If you don’t like it, don’t watch it. It’s not that big of a deal.
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Old 03-07-2022, 05:56 AM
 
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So? It’s a free country! If you don’t like it, don’t watch it. It’s not that big of a deal.
Your tax dollars at work!
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Old 03-07-2022, 07:08 AM
 
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The US government is legally permitted to use US MSM for propaganda.

Your news? Is propaganda.

Still amazes me that people only think other nations propagandize. The US government does it, too. To its own citizens.
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Old 03-07-2022, 07:09 AM
 
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So? It’s a free country! If you don’t like it, don’t watch it. It’s not that big of a deal.
People are so terrified of Rumble.

It's a platform. Like Youtube. Are they also afraid of YouTube???
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Old 03-07-2022, 07:09 AM
 
Location: Sarasota/ Bradenton - University Pkwy area
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It astonishes me to find… [that so many] of our countrymen… should be contented to live under a system which leaves to their governors the power of taking from them the trial by jury in civil cases, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of commerce, the habeas corpus laws, and of yoking them with a standing army. This is a degeneracy in the principles of liberty… which I [would not have expected for at least] four centuries.
Thomas Jefferson
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Old 03-07-2022, 07:13 AM
 
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Your tax dollars at work!

Invest 825K..... receive 50mil.. ..... Taxpayers win!! Now if only goverment can be on the winning side all the time when they spend our tax money.
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Old 03-07-2022, 07:24 AM
 
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So? It’s a free country! If you don’t like it, don’t watch it. It’s not that big of a deal.
Isn't this the truth!
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Old 03-07-2022, 07:26 AM
 
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[quote=newtovenice;63033080]The US government is legally permitted to use US MSM for propaganda.

Your news? Is propaganda.

Still amazes me that people only think other nations propagandize. The US government does it, too. To its own citizens.[/quote]

Correct, ALL the time, and it's doing it today, print, web, tv, pbs etcetc
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