The cleaving of Big Tech continues, only this time the move of company headquarters by the Rumble video hosting service appears to be a proactive move to avoid government intervention and regulations requiring platform providers to censor speech. Rumble is moving from Toronto, Canada to Sarasota, Florida.
As noted by Glenn Greenwald, “Canada is actively creating laws to impose civil or even criminal liability on social media platforms that don’t censor enough,” as a result, any content platform provider could be subject to civil or criminal liability if they do not filter content based on ideological demands of the government.
Canada and the EU are both working on laws that will define acceptable speech and the various platform hosts who give a place for online content will be held accountable. The goal of the left-wing ideology is to censor speech they view as against their interests (ex: COVID vaccination etc). Not accidentally, this same framework to stop speech has now moved to the U.S. congress as ideological activists are creating the background for U.S. regulations. That’s the motive behind Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen {Go Deep} who has testified and advocated for controls over speech in the U.S. and U.K (link).
This regulatory push to make tech platform providers like Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and now alternative venues like Rumble, Telegram, Locals, Substack, etc subject to regulations, civil and criminal punishments by bureaucratic government panels, is actually the reason why CEO Mark Zuckerberg changed the company structure of Facebook.
The creation of “Meta” as the parent company of Facebook was fundamentally a risk management strategy, limiting liability, more than anything else.
Just like the example of the Exxon Valdez oil spill changing the corporate structure for oil companies, limiting liability by removing Exxon tanker ships from the larger parent company, and using leased contracts under subsidiary names, so too does Facebook limit their liabilities by isolating each platform division away from the company’s top line revenue.
Big Tech was/is colluding with their government allies and censoring content on their platforms based on ideology. However, with various alternatives now surfacing as a result of a massive purge by Big Tech, the need for government intervention to continue the censorship has become paramount. Canada and the EU are both working on regulations to fulfill this objective. The owners of Rumble are smart to make a proactive move away from those regulations.
(Herald-Tribune) Toronto-based video platform Rumble, which is popular among conservative viewers, will establish its U.S. headquarters on Longboat Key.
The platform provides video creators a way to host, manage, distribute and create feeds and monetize their content, according to Rumble’s website. Rumble has signed a lease for a property on Longboat Key, according to a press release announcing the move.
A representative of the Economic Development Corporation of Sarasota County said at a County Commission meeting last week that a Canadian company was coming to Longboat Key, but the EDC did not reveal the name of the company until now.
“Moving to Longboat Key is a win-win for Rumble and the Sarasota community,” Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski said in the press release. “Sarasota County is growing rapidly, and we are excited to be part of the growth. We plan to fill 20-25 new positions in Florida immediately for our U.S. headquarters, with many more planned for the future. This move positions us to continue providing a platform to content creators without the threats from big tech monopolies. We are excited to invest in Florida in the coming years while we continue to grow Rumble.” (read more)
In the background of all internet communication, this discussion has been happening for years. CTH has been active inside this conversation since our own deplatforming from WP/Automattic in 2020.
Creating communication systems, including the myriad of website systems, that are not subject to the ideological whims of internet tech companies is not an easy accomplishment. However, it is getting better as more systems and platform providers are quickly coming online. Oddly enough, there is a strong army of people who create the tech systems, the actual coders and design architects, who are independent and do not agree with the totalitarian outlooks of the Big Tech conglomerate.
Starting from a decade long deficit, the “Rebel Alliance” has made great strides in creating systems and tech infrastructure to remove the tentacles of Big Tech.
Servers and internet systems are now rapidly organizing to host content providers without fear of removal; however, there is still a long way to go.
Good for DeSantis. And in Texas, we get Tesla in Austin with all its bluey blue blue employees and their wretched liberal votes.
Keep them in one place so they do not spread around Texas.
This is ironic given that Elon Musk is a libertarian who speaks his mind openly against the Woke culture. And when it comes to government, both California and federal governments hate his guts for his stance against unions, regulations and for economic freedom. Just because someone buys a Tesla or works at that company does not necessarily make him “blue”.
Of course not. But if he brings his employees with him as opposed to hiring fresh in Texas, the chances are that a good number will be more liberal. Austin is screaming liberal. I’m guessing of course, but I suspect I’m not wrong here.
We’ll see if O’bidens State Dept approves the visas of the Canadian crew.
Well, if the visas are not approved, they can fly to Mexico and join the caravan and get in free with lots of freebies thrown in for good measure.
$450,000 Big Ones also! That ought to get them started in Florida. ?
Tesla will also still be building vehicles in Cali.
Musk has said that he doesn’t want Austin to become like San Francisco. Our mayor and city council have been actively working on making it like the worst of CA, so he may be a good influence. He’s building his factory on the Colorado River which runs through Austin. It will be farther down; he wants to make hike and bike trails and a beautiful landscape. Of course, we already have trails around downtown. I hope to God he has an approach against big govt. and against our city government.
It is the Little Colorado River and it flows into Lake Travis first. He’ll be on the little Colorado River between Austin and San Antonio and the little Colorado must be a creek when it gets to San Antonio in most years.
Too bad we only have one man governing like Ron DeSantis.
The Uniparty Governor in Tennessee is terrible. We have a SuperMajority and the legislation passed is watered down Democrat Socialist claptrap.
Same way in Indiana – super majority and the best thing we can say is we have more freedom than our neighbors in Illinois, Michigan, Ohio or Kentucky – that’s something but far from what it should be.
Yup. Fellow Tennessean here. That bill passed in the special session was a complete betrayal.
More are coming up through the pipeline. In Florida keep your eyes on FL-19 Representative Byron Donalds.
A inspiring well-spoken conservative. A true rising star in the Republican Party.
He just ROCKS!
But at least we have one who can light the way.
Action — and reaction.
Let’s hope the reaction to the censorship and demonic Built Back Better agenda is overwhelming.
Overwhelming enough to change the world for the better.
BBB = Biden Bankruptcy Bills
This sure would be a lot easier if all the individuals/companies working to create their own platforms could collaborate. Not just to share technical tips but also to establish their own technical standards so information from one can be easily distributed to others. Also, it would be a way to attract attention and gather more support.
This whole thing is driven by a monolithic ideological push by the left. You would think that would be of interest to a party that is supposed to represent the opposition to help out by providing a customer base and political connections to help any issues fighting off the government.
You would think.
Think death of a thousand cuts rather than one epic battle that wraps up with us in control of everything.
There’s plenty of material to work with. It doesn’t need to be laboriously reworked to put it into use. Just get good men in the right places and let things work themselves out.
Deconstruct the Government Better
Huge Canadian population on the Nature Coast. They will feel right at home except for the lack of snow LOL
We call them “Snowbirds” here in TX.
I think Florida coined that name!
This is great news for Rumble, for Florida, and for the 1st Amendment.
And lets not forget the huge sacrifice Rumble employees are making. Rather than cave and censor, they are uprooting their families and community ties to do this. That is quite a hardship & no small sacrifice.
Just curious about the logistics. People aren’t even allowed to travel anymore between countries without enormous restrictions. How does a Canadian company just decide to be an American company and move its Canadian employees to the US? We’re not the EU. If an American wanted to move to Canada and get a job the answer would be no, and vice versa.
And fwiw, if we ever re-gain the Presidency why not open up our immigration system to Canadians and others from the Anglosphere who want the hell out of their countries because of Covid totalitarianism. Or are white immigrants illegal?
Smart moves. Not sacrifice in my way of thinking.
They may love the freedom of FL.
How I wish THIS Canadian could move to Florida….
? I hear you!
DD
We wish you could, too.
There are a lot of Canadians in Florida. (several neighbors) They only head north once a year to keep their free medical. Not sure how well that will work this year with the border being “closed”.
Good move.
“Sarasota County is growing rapidly” – Unfortunately true since 10,000,000 have moved to the state in just the last 20yrs with far too many coming to this former bucolic county.
Your feelings are understandable. I was just speaking with my Sarasota friend last night, who told me the area has been so built up, I’d hardly recognize it from last time.
Would really love to move back to the Gulf coast, but traffic is now ridiculous, and housing unaffordable anywhere near the water.
I lived on Longboat Key back in the early 80’s. As soon as you say Longboat Key, people get an image. So I would quickly add I lived in the slums of Longboat Key. It was a great spot with a boat dock on the intercoastal side. I am sure that area is now long gone.
I’m grateful for Rumble, and glad they’re coming to the US – but it seems a shame to locate a company like that on such a beautiful spot.
There are now so few places for the public to enjoy beachfront swimming or fishing. Most are packed, or costly to access. In fact, driving along most of the coastline, you can barely even get a glimpse of the water anymore. 🙁
Fresh water is the next Florida crisis. We don’t have enough fresh water to support these new millions, Nor do we have roads to evacuate them from a storm.
Fresh water is the next US crisis. Colorado doesn’t have the fresh to support the people moving here either.
Water was a crisis 40 years ago. The county made all new subdivisions build retention ponds and the canals stopped most of the rain water from flowing straight to the gulf. There were no permits for new construction what is now east of I75 because they were trying to limit growth.
The county has always had a ton of homes on private wells. We currently buy most of our water from manatee county.
Honestly them censoring social media speech and threatening people is real dumb.
They don’t want to hear stuff they don’t like or challenges to their narrative.
Just going to drive people to communicate old school which can’t be stopped. Fine with me.
Hopefully Rumble uses its own servers…
We have the dumbest want to be tyrants…
They are indeed stupid, the more they push the less they get.
Millions got the shot only because they trusted the government agencies.
Yes many got vaccinated but that does not mean they’re in agreement.
On the contrary many are realizing it’s all a scam and Fauci is a liar, thief and a murderer and their whole scheme is falling apart before our very eyes.
Gab does and a lot of good people are on it and talking about very relevant things.
It’s remarkable how fast America/Canada/The West is becoming the place people flee from to avoid persecution.
Indeed it is. Very sad stuff.
It’s the closest part of the U.S. to China….coinkydink?
I left in 2006…saw the writing on the wall then. Mexico will be the new America. Watch.
Loads of people moving to Mexico.
I want to move to Florida and I’m in Texas. But Abbott is no DeSantis. He only makes a move when he can longer drag it out. He acts just enough to hang on to his political future.
TRUTH. Keep up the pressure on Abbott and make him do right by the Lone Star State.
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Keep the eyes of Texas on Abbott and the legislature.
We must replace Abbott. He is all hat and no cattle. A great disappointment to us. Don Huffines was a good state senator and would do fine, I think, but lacks name recognition along with the other announced candidates, except for Lt Col. Allen West. Mr. Huffines and the other no names need to drop out and support Lt. Col. Allen West. IMHO. I will vote for anyone but Abbott unless he wins the primary again. At that point there is no choice, unfortunately. Rino strategy?
Idaho’s Brad Little is the same way. He fears backlash from the citizens more than his desire to be a dictator.
I can’t believe they chose Florida over New Jersey. Sarc/
Bwaaaahahahaha
Or “The silicon valley”?
Speaking of Meta /Facebook, it is just as I predicted. These CEO’s who allowed their their global corporations to facilitate the destruction of Western Civ will for profit will find they are of little use once the governments have established enough control. Their corporations will be consumed and either raided or run by the nation states. The globalists like Prince Charles, Obama, Prince Charles, etc. will also find themselves no longer of use, since they don’t command the military strength to fend of the likes of China, Russia, Islam, etc as they use this opportunity to attack neighboring countries and increase their power and reach.
Rumble is smart to get to Florida now while there is still time. If we can stop the destruction of America by restoring law and order and election integrity, by the grace of God things could still be put right. The Democratic party is weak and resorting to violence, but much of their control is just an illusion.
Riddle me this.
Why do we pay taxes for government to redistribute our wealth to foreign countries?
Why do we pay taxes funding elected representative who then get us fired from our jobs?
Why do we pay taxes for mandates that absolves manufactures of liability?
Because they take it.
Welcome Rumble!
This is great news!
Thank God for Desantis. I pray Florida (my future home in 2 years) remains conservative forever. Florida gives me hope. Always remember that the corrupt, deviant and thoroughly compromised puppet on a string, Dem candidate for Governor in Florida only lost the 2018 election by 23k votes among 8.1 million votes cast. Had we lost that election, our world would be far worse.
1000% agree.
There will be BIG DIM MONEY coming into FL to support Val Demings against Rubio, and any viable candidate to oppose DeSantis.
Long Boat Key used to be the best kept secret in Florida.
Beautiful area.
Now it’s Moore Haven, county seat of Glades County – west wall of Lake Okeechobee
Good thing Florida is attached at the top.
With all those “former” lefties (who ruined their own state or in this case, country) moving there, it just might be in danger of sinking on the south end.
-Hat tip to old Hank Johnson, the Johnson.
Yes, and I am worried that too many canadians on the key will cause LongBoatKey to snap off into the Gulf.
We have hurricanes, kids go barefoot, and alligators consider Karens a tasty snack.
Great platform. This is how we overcome the enemy MSM’s grip on information.
I would assert that there also needs to be relentless pressure against the left-wing tech oligarchs.
Do you do business with an employee of Twitter? Deny them service and tell them why.
Do you have a catering contract with Google? Cancel it and tell them why.
Do you ship products to Facebook? Stop doing it and tell them why.
Use every legal means available to stop these anti-American CCP bots in their tracks.
Wednesday Nov 3: World Wide Walkouts
https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/chicago-il-worldwide-walkouts
Add to that, Discover Ministries in Australia is looking to move to the US – looking for a home to start a “2nd ministry” because of the censorship down under:
https://rumble.com/vol3tw-important-personal-message-i-never-thought-id-say-this.html
It’s not just Rumble.
Recently Rumble joined/merged with Dave Rubin’s Locals, which is based in California. Rubin has been quite vocal about moving from Commiefornia to Florida, and Rubin has been to Florida more than once looking for locations.
The legal climate for Not-Big-Tech Data companies is much friendlier in Florida than California.
It was the passage of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 that caused oil companies to change the way they operated and to charter less safe foreign ships.
The Act essentially mandated unlimited liability in the event of a spill, the opposite of the sweet deal given Big Pharma. Many insurance companies declined to offer coverage to a company’s vessels.
In other words, another unintended consequence from our geniuses in DC.
“The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” – John Gilmour
Rumble still censors politically “spicy” content though. For example: https://www.bitchute.com/video/DYlb92zMkj41/
I sincerely wish them and all their competitor platforms great success. Diversity is our strength.
The ongoing COVID-19 nonsense here in the United States exists solely and exclusively because our governments have failed to use the correct treatment. They used so-called “vaccines” when Japan has just proven, in less than ONE MONTH, that Ivermectin can wipe out the disease. IVM was awarded the Nobel prize for medicine in 2015. One of the 3 most important drugs in human history: Aspirin, Penicillin, and Ivermectin. Get your Ivermectin today while you still can! https://health.p0l.org
#META – Make Everything Trump Again
Much like Texans, people in the “Live Free or Die!” State of New Hampshire are fed up with the feds. Now they are taking legislative action to make NHexit a reality.
Unknown to most outside the state, New Hampshire has been working on separating from the union for almost a decade. The Foundation for New Hampshire Independence was founded by Dave Ridley in 2012, and its mission is to “educate New Hampshire residents about the benefits of independence.” The NHExit movement was created in 2016 to address political action toward independence. Although Texas and California are also seeking independence, “New Hampshire has taken the clear lead in the race to see who will leave the union first.”(Free Keene)
Speaking of Rumble, Senator Ron Johnson hosted a forum with the vax injured today. Immediately Senator Johnson confirms Alex Berenson’s numbers in the UK. Lat 4 weeks 78% of the deaths were fully vax’d. SRJ said the CDC is hiding the numbers here. You know that they know exactly what is going on. I have not checked but I am pretty certain you will not find this on YouTube and if Rumble doesn’t get the hell outta Canada it won’t be on there either.
SD gave a grave assessment last night as to what the end game is. Listening only serves to back up the claim.
https://rumble.com/vokrf7-sen.-johnson-expert-panel-on-federal-vaccine-mandates.html
LOVE THAT GUY!! FEARLESS, smart, innovative. Would love to seehim lead the Senate.
This has seriously good ramifications and should be a bellwether for the rest of the alleged “free speech” platforms to consider. If not FL, then at least move to some historically and currently stable red state with as close as possible a real constitutionally conservative government.
My new home state!
Props to Rumble and as always, to you Sundance.
Now they’ll be out from under the jack boot of Canadian tyrannical leftism and able to run their company in a friendly normal environment.
I live in Sarasota county. A great place to live. Like all good places it is being over developed. Welcome Rumble your employees will be like minded to those of us on CTH. FJB.
It does not take a majority to prevail… but rather an irate, tireless minority,
keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men. –Samuel Adams
Let’s go Florida!
I ocassionally post on Medium. Look at the admin message I got this morning.
“Due to elevated risk of potential harm to persons or public health, Medium’s Trust & Safety team has removed the following content under its rules [my post]…”
My offending post:
“No one ever anticipated a possible Plandemic as part of a takedown of a popular sitting President who had Prosperity, Peace (5 peace deals), historically low unemployment (3.5%), low inflation and real rising wages.”
Plandemic –> potential harm???
One bright spot in the present days is that its doing a great job of separating the wheat from the chaff.
Gab (twitter), Rumble (YouTube), the Brave browser (Chrome) and search.brave.com (Brave’s 100% unconnected from Google search engine) are working out to be fantastic alternatives to the BigTech platforms.
Others, apparently including Medium, are being revealed to be little more than fake alternatives (like Fox News) designed to keep you from getting too far off the plantation.
Florida is turning into the capital of the resistence. Long live the rebellion! Freedom will prevail
So proud to have moved from decaying & dying New York to growing & FREE Sarasota County Florida.
I love my new home state and absolutely love my Governor Ron DeSantis.
Florida is the beach head the day after Normandy. The journey was here was not easy, but it’s shaping up to be nothing but great news and a positive future. The fascists’ days are numbered and they know it, even if they won’t admit it. The people have been vehemently against them, without the reigns of influence and power……..and now it is coalescing with growing reigns of power. It is only a matter of time. I LOVE this!!!!!
Canadians spend half of each year in Florida anyway. Might as well come down for all 12 months…and a platform that welcomes all viewpoints is especially welcome.
And Web3 is going to fully decentralize these services in a way that will eliminate censorship by both the government and the big-tech Web2 platforms like Facebook, Google, YouTube, etc.
Its part of the crypto revolution, and these morons have accelerated the development exponentially.
This highlights the essential differences between the Magna Carta and the US Constitution.
Too funny! I predicted they would leave Canada! I did not predict they would choose Sarasota, but they chose wisely!
This is the opportunity for me to bring something up. My kids birthday was yesterday so we took him to the movies and saw Ron’s Gone Wrong.
Anyone else seen it or heard about it? I won’t be too detailed but it’s an animated kids movie and much of it gets heavy into big tech and social media privacy abuses, data mining and overreaching control of private lives.
I was frankly surprised such a movie made it to the big screen. Interestingly none of the voices were done by A list actors, maybe not coincidentally.
Others might have a different take but I was gratified to see these messages taken on in children’s entertainment as opposed to all the woke brainwashing we see now. Very teachable movie.
I’ve been reading CTH for about 5 years now and I really appreciate the insight of Sundance and the crew. I understand a lot and I have picked my hill to die on. I hope America can pull up in time, I sure love the country. I don’t fly, preferring the view out the windshield and the people I meet on the road. This bit of news is a good thing. All the best to all the Treepers from Northern Wyoming.
Totalitarian Government:
Trudeau is bankrupting Canada on purpose to justify a “reset,” to which for him is a post modernist and neo-marxist totalitarian regime. It’s almost as if Canada is no longer a sovereign nation, as though we’re a State of the globalist U.N. Crime Minister Trudeau exact quote 2015 – ” CANADA IS THE FIRST POST NATIONALIST STATE”!
Canada’s is well on the way of becoming a country nobody wants to live in — and by extension — nobody will want to do business in. No freedom loving person anyway.
Good to hear!
Continued success be yours!
A very wise move for Rumble.
PM Trudeau is increasingly obsessed with hoarding power and gaining control over the lives of all Canadians so he can mold them into his own pompous “progressive” image. He has a weak and divided Conservative opposition (self absorbed 2 separate party’s) and a like minded 3rd party socialist NDP on his side.
In order to control Canadians, he believes he must control the information they receive and Rumble is probably at the top of his priority list to stifle.
There’s a gator in the bushes lord he’s calling my name!