BitChute

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BitChute
Video portal
operator Bit Chute Ltd.
editorial staff Ray Vahey
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On-line January 2017
https://www.bitchute.com

BitChute is a video portal based on BitTorrent technology . BitChute primarily use video producers whose channels have been deleted or demonetized by established portals such as YouTube . Critics indicated that right- wing terrorist and right-wing extremist content is published on BitChute .

History and functioning

The British software engineer Ray Vahey founded Bitchute in January 2017. It was entered in the British company register on February 24th. BitChute uses the JavaScript- based WebTorrent protocol . Content is provided peer-to-peer via the browser of active users. In contrast to conventional streaming services such as YouTube, no central server is required to provide content.

BitChute initially supported the following platforms to "monetize" ( monetization ) of content: BitBacker, CoinPayments, patreon , PayChute, PayPal and SubscribeStar. In November 2018, PayPal terminated BitChute's corporate account. Also in November 2018, Patreon announced the collaboration with BitChute. Patreon justified the decision with the fact that BitChute has no guidelines against violent organizations.

On January 17, 2019, BitChute switched to the domain registrar Epik . Epik is due to the hosting of "hate-filled websites" ( hateful websites ) in the criticism. The move was preceded by a controversy surrounding the Gab short message service . After an attack on a synagogue in the United States on October 27, 2018, the web host and domain registrar GoDaddy ended its collaboration with Gab. The tolerance of violent content by the short message service, according to GoDaddy, is a violation of the terms and conditions. Gab was then no longer available for weeks.

Content

Videos with right-wing extremist and right-wing terrorist content are published on BitChute. The Amadeu Antonio Foundation sees BitChute as "an alternative channel for right-wing extremist ideas for a long time". The advocacy group "HOPE not hate" found over one hundred videos supporting terrorist groups, including propaganda videos from these groups. 93 other videos were also found that support groups and people with connections to (international) terrorism or right-wing extremism. Bitchute would not only tolerate users who are banned for "hate speech" on other platforms, but actively promote them. Ray Vahey criticized YouTube for the fact that the streaming service had "become increasingly profit-oriented and boring" ( becoming incrementally more corporate and boring ). BitChute's policies prohibit illegal content such as child pornography and the glorification of terrorism and violence. Ray Vahey describes BitChute as an alternative to "deletions, demonetization and manipulation by means of algorithms in order to make certain content disappear into insignificance" ( bannings, demonetization, and tweaking algorithms to send certain content into obscurity ).

The platform includes the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones , the right-wing extremist vlogger Nikolai Nerling ("The People's Teacher"), the conspiracy ideologist Hagen Grell, the identitary Martin Sellner , the former journalist Oliver Janich and the conspiracy theorist Attila Hildmann .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andy Maxwell: BitChute is a BitTorrent-Powered YouTube alternative. In: Torrent Freak. January 29, 2017, accessed August 2, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Ben Makuch: The Far Right's Internet Protector Goes Down After Taking In 8chan. In: Vice . August 5, 2019, accessed August 7, 2019 .
  3. ^ Bit Chute Limited. In: Company Check. Retrieved August 3, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Test of another alternative video platform: BitChute. In: Steemit. August 24, 2018, accessed August 3, 2019 .
  5. ^ Andrew Blake: Video-sharing site BitChute cries foul after apparently being banned from PayPal. In: The Washington Times . November 14, 2018, accessed August 3, 2019 .
  6. ↑ BitChute Suspended By Patreon (but there's more ...). In: BitChute. December 1, 2018, accessed August 3, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Domain information. In: Whois. August 2, 2019, accessed on August 3, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Ben Makuch: The Far Right Has Found a Web Host Savior. In: Vice. May 8, 2019, accessed August 3, 2019 .
  9. ↑ BR: YouTube-Aus: Head of Identitarians has a range problem. In: Bayerischer_Rundfunk . July 15, 2020, accessed August 15, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Lizzie Dearden: Inside the UK-based site that has become the far right's YouTube. In: The_Independent . July 22, 2020, accessed August 15, 2020 .
  11. ^ Audra Schroeder: Far-right conspiracy vloggers have a new home. In: The Daily Dot. February 11, 2018, accessed February 8, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Andy Maxwell: BitChute is a BitTorrent-Powered YouTube Alternative (en-US) . In: TorrentFreak , January 29, 2017. Retrieved December 10, 2017. 
  13. ↑ Karolin Schwarz: Hate Warriors. The new global right-wing extremism. Herder, Freiburg 2020, p. 157 f.
  14. ^ Matthias Schwarzer: A YouTube for Nazis: What is behind the Bitchute platform. In: RND , August 21, 2020.