CNN's Censorship Fail: Independent Creators Fight Back on Debate Night 2024

⭐ Live Streaming Shenanigans on Debate Night 2024

1. CNN Copyright vs all independent creators on YouTube, Facebook, Insta & others

   1. Breaking Points decides to go premium sub only: https://x.com/esaagar/status/1805602606581961051

   2. Tim Pool being threatened too: https://x.com/SabbySabs2/status/1805689896788439174

   3. Patrick Bet-David still streamed it to YT somehow? https://x.com/Natorrie32/status/1806500973646315769

2. Our Internal Conversation at INN

3. Twitter’s position: 

   1. Patrick Webb: https://x.com/RealPatrickWebb/status/1805674062967976181

4. Rumble’s position: We’re not going to be totally clear, but not stop you. Stream at your own risk.

   1. INN’s Collin Radix-Carter, AKA Care Bear: https://x.com/ogbonna_collin/status/1805688403209634100

   2. Rumble did not stop livestreams that shared the CNN stream - they said they would follow the procedure of serving creators with a notice and giving them time to appeal or take down, which wouldn’t happen until after the event was over.: https://x.com/chrispavlovski/status/1805976267759476950 & https://x.com/chrispavlovski/status/1806482124125647349

   3. Emergency upgrade the morning of the debate: https://x.com/rumblevideo/status/1806361960037969965

   4. Their servers were overloaded and they experienced a crash around 8:30pm ET: https://x.com/rumblevideo/status/1806500184521654368

   5. They ended up breaking a record: https://x.com/StreamsCharts/status/1806696012469145862

   6. We were live on Rokfin and Twitter at that time and were able to direct viewers there: https://x.com/Natorrie32/status/1806494320331038904

5. What INN decided to do

6. We ran a looped Mp4 with Jesse Jett music underneath and QR Codes at YouTube & FB directing people to watch on Rumble and Twitter: https://youtube.com/live/BrGKVUZ2Z4w

7. Our looped QR codes gained over 200 views alone on YouTube - most views of any livestream in 2 weeks LOLOLOL

8. 77.9 million tuned in on TV + Online LIVE: 

   1. https://x.com/prncs_sha/status/1806848571422994519

   2. https://x.com/DylanByers/status/1806740806642106430

   3. In 2012, 67m watched on TV but only 3M online

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