Pavlovski sought to identify free speech as the core component in the historic achievement of the US civil rights movement. “It all comes down to one thing, freedom, freedom of speech. That’s where it comes from,” he said.

Pavlovski compared his platform’s struggle to remain open to freedom of expression to the efforts of those fighting for civil rights decades ago, and said this gave him and others at Rumble “a sense of purpose.”

At the same time, Pavlovski doesn’t think that governments of some leading Western countries are staying true to that crucial building block of their democracies.

The Rumble CEO “named and shamed” just a few – the US, the UK, Australia, and Ireland, where he said censorship laws that criminalize speech, all the way to putting people in jail, are either being drafted or enacted.

“That’s a scary place to be. That’s not a place I want to grow up in,” Pavlovski said. “But that’s what these laws are aiming to do. They’re giving the power to the government to determine what you can and cannot say. And that is a place that we have known throughout history, is a very bad place to go. And we need to do everything in the world to stop it.”

In the context of Western countries failing the very foundations of democracy, he also mentioned freedom of expression protections as part of not only the First Amendment in the US but also the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

As for the way these governments get away with blatant violations of their own founding postulates – and laws – Pavlovski spoke about the Covid pandemic as an event that was used to “take away more rights from everybody, they use that as an excuse to infringe and take more power for them(selves).”

And in this context, Pavlovski asserted that his is the only platform that pushes back against such abuses – which he referred to as, “encroachment.”

Another issue that came up during the conversation was whether or not YouTube is carrying out censorship on behalf of yet another government – this time, that of Russia.

He noted that, unlike YouTube, Rumble is among those that got banned in Russia, something happened well after Russian outlets like RT got banned in the West – and after Rumble itself was previously “criticized” for refusing to censor RT (by Western countries).

Trying to make sense of this unholy mess, Pavlovski noted, “All of a sudden now Russia bans Rumble and YouTube is still operating there. So what is YouTube doing? Why isn’t the media writing about that? Why don’t they care about that?”

“They seem to care when we stand on the principle of free speech. But they don’t care when there’s actual cooperation happening. Not at all. They still only care about trying to knock us down,” said the Rumble CEO.

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The SEC’s acknowledgment of the investigation to Wired comes after an April report by investment research firm Culper Research alleging that Rumble boosts measurements of its monthly active users (MAU) by 66% to 108%, which the company vehemently denies. Culper Research disclosed its “short” position on Rumble at the time of the report’s release, indicating potential profit if Rumble’s stock falls.

“Rumble now claims (as of Q4 2022) to have 80 million MAUs, yet SimilarWeb estimates that in Q4, Rumble.com saw a unique web-based audience of just 28.9 million, SEMrush estimates 38.8 million unique web visitors, and we estimate Rumble’s cumulative mobile app downloads totaled just 9.5 million through Q4 2022,” the report states.

The report is inaccurate and part of an effort to take down Rumble, CEO Chris Pavlovski asserted on Monday.

“The report is bogus, but that doesn’t matter—it’s all to get investors to sell the stock so the short seller profits,” Pavlovski stated. “Good news, it won’t work. We saw the attacks coming, and we prepared for them. Prior to going public, we chose to use Google Analytics to track and report our MAUs, so we could be ready for this very moment.”

Rumble considers itself a free speech alternative to YouTube and it has faced significant pushback from professional censors.

“This is just the start, they’re coming for us in 2024,” Pavlovksi added. “They can’t stand Rumble’s mission, but they are going to learn quickly how hard we punch back.”

An SEC spokesperson asserted its policy not to comment on investigations in response to the Daily Caller News Foundation. However, SEC assistant general counsel for litigation and administrative practice Melinda Hardy told Wired the investigation is active in a letter on Monday in response to the outlet’s November public records request.

“We have confirmed with Division of Enforcement staff that the investigation from which you seek records is still active and ongoing,” Hardy told Wired. The solicited documents “could be reasonably expected to cause harm to the ongoing and active enforcement proceedings because, among other things, individuals and entities of interest in the underlying investigation could fabricate evidence, influence witness testimony and/or destroy or alter certain documents.”

The unspecified investigation does not necessarily mean Rumble broke any laws, the SEC told Wired.

“Investors should be especially dubious of rumors peddled by short-sellers who are attempting to distort facts for their own financial benefit,” Rumble spokesman Rory Rumore told Wired.

Rumble did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.

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Today, it’s free speech video platform Rumble and their supporting project, Locals, that have been targeted. China is currently being blamed for the attack by some, but there are those who believe it is an attack by other elements who want free speech quashed.

Popular podcaster Viva Frei noted on Twitter:

I was planning to go live, but Rumble and Locals are down. Apparently it is a massive, unprecedented attack. One that is likely politically motivated.

If I have any updates, I will let everyone know.

Godspeed Rumble!

I was planning to go live, but Rumble and Locals are down. Apparently it is a massive, unprecedented attack. One that is likely politically motivated.

If I have any updates, I will let everyone know.

Godspeed Rumble!#RumbleUnderAttack

— Viva Frei (@thevivafrei) December 11, 2023

This was confirmed by Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski:

I can confirm that this attack has been unprecedented and has been happening since this weekend.

I also suspect it is political, coming from activists and/or organizations who want to censor our creators, and related to J6 videos being posted on Rumble.

I can confirm that this attack has been unprecedented and has been happening since this weekend.

I also suspect it is political, coming from activists and/or organizations who want to censor our creators, and related to J6 videos being posted on Rumble. https://t.co/tGomVXxEzN

— Chris Pavlovski (@chrispavlovski) December 11, 2023

According to 100% Fed Up:

Online hackers affiliated with China’s People’s Liberation Army have infiltrated critical services in the United States, according to a report by The Washington Post.

Hackers reportedly targeted key services, such as power grids and ports.

“A utility in Hawaii, a West Coast port and a pipeline are among the victims in the past year, officials say,” the outlet wrote.

“It is very clear that Chinese attempts to compromise critical infrastructure are in part to pre-position themselves to be able to disrupt or destroy that critical infrastructure in the event of conflict,” Brandon Wales, Executive Director of DHS Cyber Security Agency, said.

Whoever is behind it, this attack is massive in scale and has the potential to spark long-term disruptions of sites, apps, and services across the internet.

Sound off about this news on my Substack.

This story is developing and will be updated when more information is available.

Rumble was likely selected due to its commitment to free speech and anti-censorship principles. With the initial videos uploaded to the Rumble channel on December 5th, over 100 videos have been added so far.

The initial release took place earlier on Nov. 17, consisting of 90 CCTV clips on the House of Representatives website.

All publicly accessible CCTV footage from the day is set to make its way to the Rumble channel as part of a push for transparency.

The Capitol Police’s reluctance to permit public access to its extensive CCTV footage, has faced criticism. Nonetheless, House Speaker Mike Johnson declared the commitment towards uploading “thousands of hours of footage” in an effort to rebuild the nation’s faith in their government. Though, in some instances, Johnson said that some faces would be blurred.

Detractors have accused Johnson of concealing the faces to protect undercover members of law enforcement, an accusation the speaker denies, insisting upon the precautions to safeguard innocent individuals.

“We want the American people to draw their own conclusions,” Johnson said. “I don’t think partisan elected officials in Washington should present a narrative and expect that it should be seen as the ultimate truth.”

“This decision will provide millions of Americans, criminal defendants, public interest organizations and the media an ability to see for themselves what happened that day, rather than having to rely upon the interpretation of a small group of government officials,” he said in a statement.

The channel is available here.

George Soros is moving his vast wealth around to try to bolster the Democrats ahead of the midterm elections. FBI whistleblowers are coming out of the woodwork even as they forced an illegitimate victory with convictions in the Gretchen Witmer fednapping trial. Meanwhile, they’re still pushing for gun control even as the evidence points toward psychotropic drugs as being the root cause of mass shootings.

We covered these things and more on today’s episode of The JD Rucker Show. Here are links to the stories we covered:

• George Soros Giving Millions To Chuck Schumer’s PAC, Fears Red Wave In November? -https://americanconservativemovement.com/george-soros-giving-millions-to-chuck-schumers-pac-fears-red-wave-in-november/
• Rumble Challenges Big Tech’s Ad Dominance, Launches Rumble Ads in Beta – https://reclaimthenet.org/rumble-ads-beta/
• (Sponsor) Lifesaving Antibiotics Available Through Telehealth – https://jdrucker.com/meds
• Two Men Found Guilty in Michigan Governor Whitmer Kidnapping Plot – https://americanconservativemovement.com/breaking-two-men-found-guilty-in-michigan-governor-whitmer-kidnapping-plot/
• The New Green Economy Is Little More Than a Keynesian Spending Scheme – https://mises.org/wire/new-green-economy-little-more-keynesian-spending-scheme
• Mike Lindell’s MyStore – https://mystore.com/jdr
• Prescription-Drug-Induced MASS SHOOTINGS and the ‘Elephant in the Room’ – https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-08-22-prescription-drug-induced-mass-shootings-room-elephant.html