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28 Jul 2020 1 minute read 1 comment TheDesertLynx
Independent journalism legend Ben Swann speaks about social media censorship from YouTube to Facebook, which includes demonetization, deleted content and channels, as well as more insidious forms such as "fact-checking" and determining that a piece...
22 Jul 2020 2 minute read 0 comments TheDesertLynx
Independent investigative journalist Ben Swann has launched ISE.Media, an alternative media platform to compete with traditional online outlets such as Facebook and YouTube. This is meant to eventually transition to a decentralized blockchain-based...
22 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments TheDesertLynx
Cancel culture seeks to silence or deplatform anyone outside of a narrow viewpoint. But could it have a silver lining? Could it paradoxically end up helping to further free speech and end the political divisions we experience today? Donate! Please...
10 Jul 2020 2 minute read 9 comments Brennan
On June 16th, an Ethereum account holding $100,000 USD worth of USDC was blacklisted by Circle, after receiving a request from the U.S. government to have it suspended. The news marks the first time an account has been frozen by Circle since the Gold...
2 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments KHubbard
This week's edition features a report from top consulting firm, Deliotte, on the growth of blockchain adoption. The question to ponder is how much longer will it take before crypto can be considered mainstream and can you consider yourself a true...
1 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments TheDesertLynx
I go in a deep dive with Jeremy Kauffman, the CEO of decentralized content platform LBRY, with some of the tougher questions on the platform's censorship resistance. We went over the deep details on how decentralized the platform actually is, from t...
30 Jun 2020 2 minute read 0 comments at350
A platform of censorship. I've been on Reddit for over three years now, and I love a lot about it. The dedicated communities to talk to people with similar interests as you, the voting system, and the amount of content. However, Reddit seems to be m...
27 Jun 2020 3 minute read 3 comments TheDesertLynx
Cancel culture is in full effect. Comedians Chris D'Elia, Joey Diaz, and Joe Rogan have come under the crosshairs for various perceived problematic past behavior. A wave of journalist firings has kicked off in recent months. Even early-days YouTube...
25 Jun 2020 1 minute read 0 comments TheDesertLynx
In this most recent episode of Live Free and Rant we go deep on cancel culture, and have one of the strongest disagreements of the show when covering several comedians being targeted recently over misconduct allegations. Chris is at his most fired u...
17 Jun 2020 1 minute read 26 comments Scott Cunningham
When YouTube is demonetizing their top-performing content creators like Joe Rogan, it should be unsurprising when they leave for better alternatives. The question I want to tackle is why YouTube has been allowing less and less content to exist on the...
