06/20/2019 / By Mike Adams
With YouTube’s censorship of pro-liberty voices accelerating by the day, video free speech site Brighteon 2.0 is about to launch with new features, a new user interface and improve resistance against internet censorship.
Brighteon.com launched in July, 2018 as a free speech platform. Originally named “Real.video,” the name was changed to Brighteon.com after resolving an intellectual property dispute with Real Networks, which threatened to go to court to confiscate the domain name.
Over the last year, Brighteon has faced extreme censorship efforts by upstream infrastructure providers, forcing Brighteon to remove, for example, all videos depicting the New Zealand mosque shooting. By the time that took place, we were already working hard on a massive platform re-work, building our own infrastructure that would move videos off upstream tech platforms and help insulate the network from future censorship attacks.
Now, Brighteon 2.0 is just a week (or so) away. Nearly all existing videos are automatically moved to Brighteon 2.0 with no effort required on the part of users. All the video embed code and URLs will continue to work as before.
Brighteon 2.0 offers several new advantages:
More features are being added this year, too…
Now that our infrastructure changes are nearly complete, the Brighteon R&D team will be focusing on new features to make the site more convenient for end users and content creators alike:
Join now (it’s free) at Brighteon.com. All the new features are being rolled out next week. As always, expect a few glitches during the rollout period.
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