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I believe bongo is more of a silent owner than just partner/user.

Also, this comment I think from that article/link
Prior to its influx of conservatives, Rumble's partners included news organization Reuters, venerable viral video outfit America’s Funniest Home Videos, television station owner E.W. Scripps, and fact-checking site Snopes. Its new content creators are more controversial. Solomon’s previous work for the Hill resulted in a damning internal inquiry .. ...

it should be noted that the description of 'partner' in the media most time means that you've paid a fee to submit an article or data to a distributor or publisher. Far too many times, the word 'partner' is incorrectly and purposely used to confuse people into believing there is more to a relationship beyond just paying a fee.

Because these groups are called partners, it does not mean they support the site.

Partner is a over used to imply a false relationship specially with scam stock promotion. However, all media is promotion and other venues also distort the impression of 'partnerships'.

I am not saying you implied this and you are not the subject of my contention about misuse of titles.

And now the pieces of shit repubics are piling on the far right bongo sites to say Biden isn't picking the right people and how bad they are. The scumbags are already trying to undermine Biden before he gets started. I'm supposed to believe what Mitch and any repubic says? Sorry, never did and won't again. I know there are good people who are republican and some are in low office, but they're hiding behind their office chairs afraid to come out. I would be too if my bosses lied to the entire United States for like four years.

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Should web-hosting companies restrict who's on their platforms?

"... Can Dan Bongino Make Rumble The Right's New Platform?"

by Kaya Yurieff @kyurieff August 14, 2017: 4:51 PM ET

VIDEO - Trump criticizes black CEO by name. No mention of white supremacists

White supremacist and neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer is having a hard time finding a place on the web.

Internet-domain provider GoDaddy gave The Daily Stormer the boot after the site published a derogatory story .. http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/14/us/godaddy-daily-stormer-website-trnd/index.html?iid=EL .. about a 32-year-old woman killed at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend.

Earlier on Monday, Google Domains became the registrar for the site. However, Google later said in a statement it's canceling The Daily Stormer's registration for violating its terms of service.

This game of internet-domain whack-a-mole raises issues around what domain-hosting companies are responsible for, and where they draw the line on objectionable material.

"Legally, they don't have any responsibility around this, unless it's a federal crime [such as child pornography] or intellectual property," Daphne Keller, the director of intermediary liability at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, told CNN Tech.

However, as a private business, website-hosting companies have the right to decide with whom they conduct business, and GoDaddy's decision does not violate the First Amendment, according to experts.

The First Amendment protects freedom of speech and expression from government censorship and government punishment. But private organizations and companies can censor speech in their offices and on their platforms, said Lata Nott, the executive director at the Newseum Institute's First Amendment Center.

"If GoDaddy doesn't want to host a certain site on its platform, that's within their rights," she said.

Related: Europe says Twitter is failing to remove hate speech

In general, GoDaddy says it doesn't condone content that advocates expressions of hate, racism and bigotry. But the company usually doesn't take action on complaints that are considered censorship of content or those representing the exercise of freedom of speech and expression on the internet.

"While we detest the sentiment of such sites, we support a free and open Internet and, similar to the principles of free speech, that sometimes means allowing such tasteless, ignorant content," a GoDaddy spokeswoman told CNN Tech.

In this case, GoDaddy said The Daily Stormer crossed the line and "encouraged and promoted violence."

"In instances where a site goes beyond the mere exercise of these freedoms, however, and crosses over to promoting, encouraging, or otherwise engaging in violence against any person, we will take action," the spokeswoman said.

The company did not immediately respond to a question about how it determines what content encourages and promotes violence.

Related: Facebook, Twitter face fines up to $53 million over hate speech

Roy Gutterman, director at the Tully Center for Free Speech at Syracuse University, said he understands why GoDaddy doesn't want to associate its platform with neo-Nazis, but their move will just push the group to another platform or "back underground."

"Kicking the Nazis off will not make them go away, but not everybody wants to associate themselves with these types of speakers, even though these speakers have a right to express themselves," Gutterman said.

Other companies aren't making restrictions about who can be on their platform.

DreamHost, another web hosting provider and domain name registrar, said it will host any website as long as its content is legal in the U.S.

"As stalwart supporters of the Constitution's First Amendment, we believe that hosting providers should not be in the business of dictating acceptable content among its users," a DreamHost spokesman told CNN Tech.

"We are a resource for publishers of all backgrounds, not a clearinghouse for thoughts and opinions (however distasteful some of them may be)," he said.

DreamHost is the domain registrar for neo-Nazi groups like American Nazi Party and the National Alliance.

Some experts think content policies could be a slippery slope if companies such as web hosts and domain registrars, who are deeper in the infrastructure of the internet, start making and enforcing their own rules outside established legal parameters.

"The internet was built on having all of the machines in the middle be completely neutral so that anybody could transmit any content. If we start having the machines in the middle exercise their own judgment beyond what the law requires, that starts looking a little weird," Keller said.

CNN Money (New York) First published August 14, 2017: 4:51 PM ET

https://money.cnn.com/2017/08/14/technology/godaddy-daily-stormer/

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Here Are All the Prominent Conservatives Who Have Joined Parler

" Zorax, Can Dan Bongino Make Rumble The Right's New Platform?"

By Aila Slisco On 11/18/20 at 7:53 PM EST

VIDEO - Trump Signs Executive Order Targeting Twitter And Other Social Media Companies

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A growing list of Republican politicians and other prominent conservatives have quickly flocked to social media app Parler in the aftermath of the presidential election.

Republicans serving in the U.S. Senate who have opened Parler accounts include Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Sen. Mike Lee of Utah. House Republicans have joined as well, including Rep. Devin Nunes of California, Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio and Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York.

Former Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley also has an account. South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem is on the platform, while the office of Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts announced that he had joined on Tuesday. Several other GOP governors have not joined but have had fake accounts opened in their names.


Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) are pictured outside the U.S. Senate impeachment
trial of President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C. on January 25, 2020. Alex Wong/Getty

Parler has had a base of conservative users since launching in 2018, but user numbers have skyrocketed in 2020. Many of the new users joined after complaining that mainstream platforms like Twitter or Facebook were unfairly targeting them for spreading evidence-free claims of election fraud that have been touted by President Donald Trump.

When mainstream platforms began to censor .. https://www.newsweek.com/parler-ted-cruz-approved-free-speech-app-already-banning-users-1514358 .. or label Trump's posts for spreading misinformation over the summer, initially responding to false claims that voting by mail is rife with widespread fraud, many on the right reacted with outrage before joining alternatives like Parler.

Several members of the Trump family have their own Parler accounts. Ivanka Trump announced this week that she was joining family members on the platform, including Tiffany Trump, Eric Trump and Lara Trump. Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani also uses the app. Trump himself does not have an account, although his campaign does.

Conservative political pundits who have flocked to the app include popular Fox News personalities Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson, along with Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo. Commentators Candice Owens, Charlie Kirk and Dan Bongino—who is an investor in the company—were early users.

Talk show host Glenn Beck made his first Parler post on Monday, remarking that he felt "freer already" since joining the platform. Mark Levin and Steven Crowder, who also host shows on BlazeTV, were previously using the app.

Although most have opened Parler accounts while remaining active on Twitter and Facebook, some have either left or threatened to leave mainstream platforms behind entirely. Levin has repeatedly warned that he "will not stay at Facebook or Twitter if they continue censoring" him while promoting the app in the weeks after the election, although has yet to do so.

Far-right conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones and Jacob Wohl, along with others that have been banned from mainstream platforms, have also found a home on the app. Laura Loomer, Milo Yiannopoulos, Gavin McInnes and Katie Hopkins all have accounts.

Other celebrities with conservative views .. https://www.newsweek.com/kirstie-alley-tito-ortiz-more-celebrities-who-made-move-parler-1547008 .. who have joined Parler include actors Dean Cain, Scott Baio, Anthony Sabato Jr. and Kirstie Alley. Musicians Ted Nugent and Kaya Jones have accounts as well, while John Tesh left Twitter permanently in favor of the platform while urging fans to join him and "say goodbye to viciousness and censorship."

https://www.newsweek.com/here-are-all-prominent-conservatives-who-have-joined-parler-1548565

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