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Stripe just cut off Bitchute, so distributed platforms are facing some clear hostility from Silicon Valley insiders.
by wmil 8y ago
Stripe just cut off Bitchute, so distributed platforms are facing some clear hostility from Silicon Valley insiders.
- TAForObvReasons 8y agoDecentralization is great for disrupting existing incumbents, and has the added benefit of creating an opportunity for a company to re-centralize the culture. GitHub is a great example of this, as are the many attempts to chip away at email
- TaylorAlexander 8y agoGitHub is a great example of decentralization? In what way? I view GitHub as a centralized service.
- cwyers 8y ago> has the added benefit of creating an opportunity for a company to re-centralize the culture
- rgbrenner 8y agosilicon valley and stripe don't live in a bubble separate from the rest of the world. The credit card processing rules against file sharing sites like Bitchute were imposed by visa et al several years ago. They sent out a notice to everyone years ago.. I remember reading it. It really is out of stripe's hands if stripe wants to stay in business. If you want to start a company like that you can't use credit cards. They have to use bitcoin, etc. These were the rules years before Bitchute even wrote the first line of their code.
- cannonedhamster 8y agoBitchute is also primarily far right wing/white power vloggers and conspiracy believers. That's probably a second reason that they would get cut off by an established player. They would really need to diversify their user base to become more palatable.