Posted on 10/30/2020 10:44:45 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Conservative radio host Dan Bongino has acquired an equity stake in the online video-sharing platform Rumble as a challenge to YouTube in the free speech arena.
"We need a home," Bongino exclusively told the Washington Examiner. "We need somewhere to go where conservative views won't be discriminated against." Bongino with over half a million subscribers on YouTube cites 80 percent of his daily episodes on The Dan Bongino Show have been demonetized for its conservative content. "I'm sick of it, and I wanted to do something about it."
On Monday, Bongino plans on airing The Dan Bongino Show in an exclusive window daily on Rumble before sharing to his YouTube channel.
The Dan Bongino Show is ranked the 12th most popular podcast on Apple Podcasts, podcastinsights.com lists.
According to Rumble's website, the streaming service "provides video creators a way host, manage, distribute, create [over-the-top] feeds and monetize their content."
"YouTube is crushing conservative voices. I'm not going to sit around and take their bullsh*t anymore," Bongino tweeted ahead of the announcement on Wednesday. "They think alienating & discriminating against major content producers is a long-term business plan. It’s not. I’ll have a big announcement about this fight on my show tomorrow."
Backing words with action is in Bongino's playbook. This endeavor follows the successful launch of The Bongino Report, a steadfast alternative to The Drudge Report's now-liberal leaning news aggregator.
Bongino’s investment in Rumble further characterises his trend of backing Big Tech alternatives. In June, the conservative media head partnered with Parler to fire back at censorship on Twitter.
In the competitive social media market, Bongino has been champion of independent underdogs, using his loyal base to drive traffic away from the mainstream and towards dark horse mediums circulating new ideas and free thought.
"I’ve decided it’s time to fight back against the Tech Tyrants. I’m beyond fed up with the censorship and bias of Twitter and Facebook and I’m not going to stand back and watch as they target us," Bongino wrote at the time.
Bongino is one of the top and best guys in the Conservative / Honest movement. Support him...
Part owner of Parler too.
Way to go Dan! This is somthing that has been needed for a very long time.
Good!!
Hey he looks like a distant cousin I have that’s doing life for a mafia related hit.
That was 28 years ago.
Um, forget this post.
I wish him luck!
I have to check this out and possibly open an account and get away from you tube.
Dinesh D’souza has videos on Rumble.
The best way to hold the others accountable is competition. Way to step up, Dan.
I signed up.
I will sign on. I tried to get on Parlor, but kept getting rejected.... Tw*tter banned me long ago. Be fun to have a decent little small scale debate. Oh, but the Left can’t have that, can they?
“Part owner of Parler too.”
Has anyone here signed up for Parler? I never had any interest in joining Facebook or Twitter, but I am curious about conservative alternatives.
“The best way to hold the others accountable is competition.”
I agree. I never really had a lot of sympathy for people who bitched about social media websites, because I figured if you’re being mistreated, why use them? The best way to fight them, it seems, would be to support alternatives. Good for Bongino in putting his money where his mouth is. I always like seeng him on Fox News. He’s quite an effective communicator.
I tried but left when they wouldn't let me register unless I provided a phone number.
I am on Parler and the hate compared to twitter is BELOW nothing. Sane posts and replies
” they wouldn’t let me register unless I provided a phone number.”
I’m not thrilled with giving any website my phone number, but so many do nowadays that it’s hard to avoid.
Thanks for the feedback.
Thanks for the feedback. I guess I’ll go take a look at it. I wonder if I can read the entries without signing up. I haven’t joined Twitter but I have access to Trump’s tweets. It would be nice if I can read posts on Parler without joining.
I watch his video podcasts on Rumble. It was easy to open an account. What I don’t like is that notifications of new videos are a day later, not same day. I would imagine they’ll improve that issue at some point.
it begs the question why other highly paid conservative talking heads haven’t moved to buy up some media....
Let’s hope the credit card companies don’t stomp on this as a way to demonetize him.
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