29th June 2022, 1:42 AM
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(28th June 2022, 11:06 PM)Delphinoid Wrote: Sure. By the way, although it's a bit old, you might find this article interesting: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.01984. Some of what they say is a bit weird, but the data they present is all that really matters.
Basically, a group of researchers collected all video metadata and comment data posted to Bit Chute between the 28th of June and the 3rd of December, 2019. The results of this study, I think, are why links to Bit Chute might be blocked on a lot of websites. They found that in their dataset, a minimum of 10% of comments contained hate speech; in particular, the amount of hate speech on Bit Chute is a bit over 80% of what's you see on /pol/, which is saying something.
The majority of the content that people engage with on Bit Chute is news-like content, commenting on current events, politics and conspiracy theories. In addition, in the words of the article, "Bit Chute contains terroristic, neo-Nazi recruitment and calls to violence, and this content receives engagement". I'm not sure of the degree to which this is accurate, if it's accurate at all, but it doesn't seem surprising based on the purpose the platform serves.
This kind of thing is part of what makes me immediately distrustful of the content on the platform. Not only do content creators have no obligation to provide factual information that they can back up (and indeed, I would expect most don't bother - it's my guess that most videos are just opinion pieces, which I think is what anyone would expect from any video-sharing platform, where the only goal you have as a content creator is to get views), they're publishing on a platform that indirectly encourages hate speech and violence.
As a Christian and a pacifist, this kind of content just doesn't sit right with me. Sorry for bringing this up randomly, I guess I just wanted to mention this.
Interesting article to read. But you know, there's a good reason why they cast Bit Chute as people of hate speech. Yes, it is news-like content, but they've been known to tell the truth. I'd be glad to give you an example of something that's been proven to actually happen from their site. I can understand your viewpoint on this. It's incredibly difficult to convince a person that someone is providing factual information.
Btw, I think the reason they call it hate speech and have that site blocked on a lot of websites is because they know they're telling the truth. Again, I can find something that proves this because I don't want to sound like I'm getting this from word of mouth. I've actually seen factual information that covers this.
It's accurate, btw. These people who claim Bit Chute is condoning hate speech, are known as left-wingers. They believe in things like abortion, taking our guns away, etc. I don't want to dive deep into that discussion; just thought I'd touch up a little bit about them.
I will ask you this question, though. Do you believe that Youtube censors people who "supposedly" tell the truth, or do you think they censor people for other reasons? If the video is banned on Youtube, then it's for a reason.
