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Rumble the free speech alternative to YouTube tonight a new streaming service

called Kick is offering tens of millions of dollars, in one case a hundred million dollars, to some of the world's most popular streamers to leave

Twitch the Amazon-owned platform that has long been the industry leader.

The extraordinary amount of money that Kick is lavishing on these content

creators is enabled by the fact that the platform is owned by stake.com, which has numerous

shady interests including a major interest in online

crypto casinos where people around the world gamble their paychecks on

blackjack roulette and other games of chance as they fall into gambling

addictions online.

All of this would be somewhat ordinary in banal.

All sorts of sports celebrities and other influencers

are now frequently paid by gambling sites

to encourage their followers and fans to gamble their income online.

I personally think that adults should have the rights inside of how to spend the money

they earn, including gambling, if that's what they wish to do.

But what makes Kicks so uniquely pernicious, even kind of creepy and repulsive,

is that the popular creators they are lavishing with many millions of dollars in order to stream are known for

having very young audiences filled with young adults and even teenagers under 18.

And what many of these creators are doing and the contract often requires it is spending hours streaming online to very young audiences while they engage in online gambling at the crypto casino owned by Kicks parent company,

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