Pretty good. Nazism is ilegal in Brazil, and promoting it is too. Get fucked Nazi hosting platforms, you wouldn’t be missed.

Rumble, the video-sharing platform where Russell Brand has 1.4 million followers, may not be a household name but it has grown in popularity – especially among those from the right and “alt-right” – as a place said to be “immune to cancel culture”.

Rumble is backed by the billionaire and prominent conservative venture capitalist Peter Thiel, who invested in 2021, and the conservative former Fox News presenter Dan Bongino, who has 2.9 million subscribers himself. The platform is valued at more than $2bn (£1.6bn).

Alongside Brand, who regularly posts conspiracy theories and critiques of mainstream media, is Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City, who was an early adopter of the app, and Andrew Tate, known for his misogynistic views. Tate has 1.6 million followers. Trump joined Rumble after he was blocked by other platforms, and now has 2 million followers, while his son Donald Jr this year announced an exclusive partnership with the platform, where he will host a biweekly livestream show called Triggered with Don Jr. The platform is also used by Alex Jones, a conspiracy theorist, who has defended Brand and was last year ordered to pay £1.2bn in damages to families of the Sandy Hook school shooting after falsely claiming the attack was a hoax.

Nic Newman, of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University, said: “The specific gap that Rumble fills has been a growth business fuelled by Covid vaccine conspiracies and misinformation. It is no coincidence that the big growth in the user base came between 2020 and 2021.

For further info, so other posters know what’s going on:

Currently the Brazilian civil code has a gap that allows you to promote Nazism as long as you don’t use the swastika, nor “practice, induce or incite discrimination or prejudice based on race, [skin] colour, ethnicity, religion or national [SIC] origin”; refer to law 7716/1989 of the Civil Code article 20*.

And then there’s “that fucking guy” who says that there should be a Nazi party in Brazil; he’s called Bruno Auib, also known as Monark, some random podcaster. He did not violate the law in letter, but clearly did it in spirit. And later on the same guy went saying “the elections were rigged!” and something like this, so the Brazilian judiciary (Alexandre de Moraes) used the opportunity to demand social media platforms to get rid of his accounts, under the allegation of fake news*.

And now Rumble is all over the place trying to justify the non-removal of that guy. The platform is Canadian and the decision is from the Brazilian judiciary, and yet they’re babbling about “muh Amurrcan values” and that “gavurrnmenrs urr bullying uz”.

[I like the outcome of the judiciary decision. The way that it was done was a bit shitty, but better than nothing.]

*the links are in Portuguese but I can translate relevant excerpts if anyone so desires.

Just sounds like yet another tech ceo trying to protect the Nazis or other bad actors on their platform.