Welcome, friends. This is James Corbett, a Corbett Report.com. And as you know, we are doing a series, a weekly series here, on alternative social media platforms.

Ways to get out of the Twitter,

Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat matrix of control, and onto some platforms that at least promise

the possibility of something more decentralized and less censorable. And on that note,

people will know that one of the earliest alternative social media platforms that I adopted

was bitchute.com, which you will note is generally the video that is embedded on the front page

of my website is a bitchute embed. So most people have probably at least tried bitshute.com yet,

but if not, this might be a good opportunity for you to find out more about it. And today,

we're going to be talking to the founder of bitchute.com, Ray Vahey.

Ray, thank you so much for joining us today.

Hey, James. Great to be here.

Excellent. Well, this is an alternative social media platform, I suppose. It is a video platform

specifically. So give us the 30 second, one minute pitch. What is bitshute.com and why should people be using it?

Okay, so BitShoot is a peer-to-peer video sharing service. It's based on WebTrent, which is a browser-based implementation of the BitTrent protocol.

And what that means is that rather than having thousands of computers in

data centers all around the world, we're relying on computers making peer connections to each other

to offset our bandwidth costs and to make the system very robust. So if you look in North America today, BitTor still accounts for about 5% of all traffic

in North America, which is smaller than YouTube, but it's comparable. So this protocol is proven

over a decade. It's very scalable. It can grow to near infinite levels and that's

what BitShoot is based on. But probably more important than that, BitShoot is a different

type of social media platform in the... We're trying to move away from traditional norms. We don't want to be selling

people's data. We don't want to spy on people. We want to have a platform where people can use

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