Rumble assured its users Wednesday that it will stick to its “mission to protect a free and open internet” by continuing to allow Russia’s state-owned news network RT to post on its platform.
Its competitor YouTube, on the other hand, opted to block RT from its site at the beginning of March. RT had 4.66 million subscribers and over 10 billion views at the time.
The announcement comes as Rumble claims to have received questions on the matter, saying there was “pressure from journalists demanding that we censor more.” Rumble tweeted out screenshots from two emails received this week.
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“There is a reason the public has radically turned against both the corporate media and Big Tech: because you have arrogantly claimed for yourselves the power to decide for the public what information they can and cannot be trusted to hear and what views they can and cannot express,” Rumble wrote. “By stark contrast, the reason Rumble is growing so rapidly is because we trust adults to make decisions for themselves about what ideas they can express, and we trust them to make up their own minds after hearing all sides.”
2/2 Here is Rumble’s response: pic.twitter.com/ZUcN6qo7yG
— Rumble (@rumblevideo) April 13, 2022
RT has 45,000 subscribers on Rumble while the platform boasts an average of 41 million monthly active users.
“The more they censor, the more people will find ways around it,” writer Laura Dodsworth tweeted in response to Rumble’s stance. “Because not only can people be trusted to make their own mind up (duh!) but they have also the natural ingenuity to solve problems. Humans gravitate to communication and honesty.”
? People have been red-pilled.
The more they censor, the more people will find ways around it. Because not only can people be trusted to make their own mind up (duh!) but they have also the natural ingenuity to solve problems.
Humans gravitate to communication and honesty. https://t.co/o7FsFaC7jZ
— Laura Dodsworth (@BareReality) April 13, 2022
“This is what needs to happen at all costs,” journalist Glenn Greenwald tweeted. He also criticized the emailing journalists for their “surreal and dangerous” behavior.
This is what needs to happen at all costs:https://t.co/UBK1atBpGr
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) April 13, 2022
RT’s most recent video featured Russian President Vladimir Putin announcing a “special operation” in Donbas on March 3. It was streamed live and had over 1.2 million views. It garnered nearly 7,000 “rumbles,” which means that many users “swiped right” on the video, rewarding it tickets that serve as a commission from the platform.
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Rumble did not respond to the Washington Examiner’s request for comment.
