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Pickax Platform: False Advertising?
A shorter version of my concerns regarding Pickax
Pickax Long Video:
https://rumble.com/v6xgfis-pickax-platform-is-it-free-speech-for-gamers.html
X Conversation:
https://x.com/NotLavistro/status/1954617693413277860
CHAPTERS:
0:00 - 1:53 : Intro
1:54 - 3:19: Context and Intent
3:20 - 8:08: Pickax Terms of Service Notes
8:09 -8:18: Verification and Restriction of Reach
8:19 - 10:16: Free Speech as a Commodity
10:17- 10:36: Comparison and Exposure of "Free Speech" Platforms TOS and censorship
10:37 - 11:24: Your Voice Sales Pitch to Creators with stipulations, and a "Human" superiority claim.
11:25- 12:16: Rumble integration and "Your voice" pitch (again)
12:17 - 12:50:ID and verification, plus streamer requirements
12:51 - 13:45: First confession of censorship and My examples of games that could get censored or removed by ToS
13:46 - 16:18: Second Confession of Censorship in comparison to X and Parler (pre Elon's X) and support info, Correction on Parler claim.
16:19 - 18:26: Evasion and answering AI Moderation, Algorithm and 3rd censorship confession
18:27 - 18:52: "Better than Gab or Truth" Claim, creator pandering.
18:53 - 20:14: "Open" yet "not motivated to connect YouTube and other Platforms other than Rumble?
20:15 - 20:42: Examples of "Free Speech Platforms censorship of free speech and SCOTUS cases declaring such examples as free speech.
20:43 - 21:22: Pickax Hesitant to work with other platforms for political and personal reasons
20:28 - 20:50: My hesitation to call them free speech and pointing out Multi-platforming is the norm, pointing out they need more to offer. Their response: "we don't ban hate speech.
20:51 - 21:09: My telling them as a veteran, I cant recommend them as a 1A platform and calling them out for false advertising.
22:10 - 22:50: Dangers of rushing to corpos who defend your tribe and not reading their ToS, having a poor Civics education
22:52 - 24:01 I do not recommend Pickax for gamers statement and final thoughts how we could address such speech that's free that we might not agree with on platforms.
24:02 - 24:40: Outro
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