Same investors that enabled them to acquire all kinds of smaller podcast platforms and are now pressuring them to censor. Unfortunately that's how it always goes.
Indeed. In the old days, "The Internet" itself was touted as a place of freedom, where governments could not control people. This can only ever get worse over time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_stalking I thought you invented the term, but i googled and it's actually a thing. "..the phenomenon is considered a persecutory belief system."
Wow, I thought he made it up too, confusing it with being gangbanged, which I'm sure he has had a train run on him a time or 2. Hilarious that it's basically a mental condition.
Exactly. I also have a tendency to get an urge to be amused with a some simple videos now and then, and gootube makes it very convenient to find the content I want.
Hard to ditch but YT is one of the worst. I use browser ext "privacy redirect" to redirect links and embeds to invidious sites. But that's still using YT. Odysee best alternative IMO.