Back to episode — Episode 739 Scott Adams - Talking to Ben Askren, Y**Tube Alternative, #Shampeachment, Cartels
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fighter, who's going to be talking to us about none of that but something more interesting: an alternative to YouTube. Now you might wonder why I would want to talk about an alternative to YouTube, but you may have seen my tweets that Senator Ted Cruz actually retweeted this morning or last night in which I talked about how YouTube is suppressing my views and monetization. I thought it was time t…
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Yeah, but anyway. Other networks then, things like Substack and Patreon, and they're applying some old principles obviously without a token. But in that case it's one individual. And so they call it the Rockfin subscription consortium. So essentially you're not by yourself and you pair up with a whole bunch of other people which makes it infinitely more valuable when you can do something like that.
All right, Ben, nobody understands it at a conceptual level yet. The only way we'll understand it is I'm a user. I put a video on there. How's my experience different from if I put a video on BitChute or a video on YouTube?
I got BitChute on YouTube. I think if you don't see the problem with what's happening with your lack of monetization then I guess I can't really help you. But the fact that YouTube had so much power over you and you really have no recourse to do anything about it, I think that should provide kind of alarms.
Well yeah, but that would be true with every platform. Every platform owner would have ability to kick anybody off the platform. So with Rockfin if you get kicked off for whatever reason you don't agree, you don't deal with the terms of service, then you keep all of the emails that are attached to your account. So obviously you keep a personal relationship with your customer which is also something that the larger digital networks don't want you to have. Scott, you don't have everyone's YouTube email. Who's following you on YouTube? Of course.
True. So that would be good. But if you got kicked off you'd still be kicked off, correct? And what are they thinking in preview? The things you would get kicked off for were not for just being a conservative or being a liberal.
Yeah, you have to go full Nazi to get kicked off, right?
Yeah, I sent you the terms of service yesterday. It literally spells out some examples: white supremacists. You're not gonna get kicked off people for political reasons. And then they have hardcore pornography on their site. I mean it's kind of...
All right, well Ben got cut off again. But Ben if you can hear me, thank you so much. That's what we wanted to get out of that. People will go and take a look at it themselves. So go to Rockfin.com if you want to see an alternative.
Now I want to say again that first of all thank you to Senator Ted Cruz. It's always great to wake up in t
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he morning and find out that one of the most prominent senators in the country just retweeted your tweet because he thought the issue was worthy. And it's the issue of people being demonetized and especially conservative voices being demonetized. Here's my take on what's going on and this is just speculation. All right, so I don't want to say this is a conspiracy theory. This is pure speculation.…
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