All of Silicon Valley is run by raging SJWs. Acting like theres an alternative is just idiotic, there's only platforms that are too irrelevant for the left to care about censoring for now. YouTube is the big dog, and if you are trying to build a platform, it's basically required.
No. You are basically making it required.
I am actively involved in this particular thing... PLENTY of homesteader and bushcraft channels are getting nixed too, right along with Christian and Conservative channels...
The approach we are working now is to build a private site, and post real vids on the site, using Youtube only for the ability to attract viewers - Putting up happy little 10 minute blurbs that can't possibly trigger the left, with an ability to join the mailing group to get notified of more in-depth videos which will be hosted off-youtube.
This is working out pretty good - It is a great monetizing method, as the private site is supported by advertisers that are directly desiring the site content. A knife company is going to pay more, and be happy, if the site is about bushcraft and hunting - A much better, and cheaper, and effective (so far) means, even though hit counts are much less - The hits that are there are far more likely to be interested in their product, than the shuffling advertising model of the giants, where most of the time, your ads are not in front of interested parties.
This is quintessentially a Conservative solution - It is distributed, self-reliant, and free (as in beer, and as in freedom).
I am speaking a bit prematurely, but another friend is working on a country version of 'Facebook', and already has investors. THAT is how you go up against these social media giants - On the field of battle! Not in courts and government regulations.
This is what all you "free market" goons don't get. The minute a platform get big enough to be relevant, Google or Facebook just buys it out, or it gets brought into the left wing fold by the overwhelming mobs and institutional groups that exert financial leverage on them.
I swear, some of you "conservatives" would be fine with being thrown into gulags as long they weren't run by the government.
Holy crap, d00d. What 'conservative' is *for* federal regulation? This is what you federal regulation goons don't understand: Those same regulations will be used against YOU, soon enough. You are giving the government the right to censor. That is just plain dumb.