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Why do conservatives always assume they're being censored or "blocked."
Your app that's publicly criticized for being LOADED with misinformation, propaganda, and far-right extremism is NOT blocked. I just accessed it to test it myself with a Roku Ultra.
Maybe if you learned the FIRST THING about technology you'd be able to deduce that on your own. Did you even bother resetting your Roku first?
I can literally speak search "rumble" into the remote and it pops up in the app search available to download.
You're not being "silenced" lmao. Conservatives are always trying to manufacture outrage.
- StreamerUser4 months agoRoku Guru
ThisIsMeNowStopold_salty_dawgPithy
The (old) "Rumble TV" app was deprecated/discontinued and is no longer available/working.
However, the new "Rumble" app (version 10.5.121) is available from the Roku Channel Store and is working: https://channelstore.roku.com/details/1d24fd627f3c8b4912bff06e96662d08:dc6a612b6d6b1a2302d5422326c9b919/rumble
Its possible the other posters may be as "liberal" or "progressive" as you are/may be - they may simply use Rumble in order to have access to the "disinformation" and "propaganda" and "extremism", a la 'The Howard Stern Effect'...
You may also want to consider that if they are in fact conservative they may view your news/information and outlets as likewise "disinformation" and "propaganda" and "extremism" - and therefore they simply want similar/equal/countering news/information & access...
Finally one does not have to look "hard" or "far" to see that there are just as many examples/scenarios/situations of "cancel/censor/block assuming liberals/progressives" and/or "technology challenged liberals/progressives": technical/technology incapability/ignorance is non-partisan/political in practice...
- easytodobetter4 months agoRoku Guru
You're naive.
It's known as a platform for hate. So if it WAS being blocked, that would be why. But it's not.
The difference between other platforms and Rumble, is when you fact-check 90% of what's found on Rumble, it's a lie or it's a lie based on a truth that seems reasonable but is still a lie.
Absolutely loaded with propaganda and misinformation instead of news, legitimate fact-checked, corroborated news.
It tracks though, most conservatives are inept with technology and are quick to cry about censorship or being blocked when they just can't use the restart or search feature properly.
- AvsGunnar4 months agoCommunity Streaming Expert
When users come to this support forum to find out why something is not working for them, we try to help them resolve their issue.
We do not insult their choice of content or tech-prowess.
The great thing about internet streaming, and the internet in general, is that users/streamers are no longer beholden to cable companies and others for their choice of content, information, and access to it.
Rumble was developed to combat issues many saw increasingly happening on video creator platforms. https://corp.rumble.com/our-story/. As is the usual case, there are two sides to any story and differs with the cited Mediate source. (whom, I assume some may consider to be devoid of any "propaganda and misinformation instead of news, legitimate fact-checked, corroborated news").
While not what it once was, Roku is still primarily a neutral platform when it comes to apps/channels. Some users coming from other platforms may not have enjoyed the freedom of installing the apps of their choice (even if it was available) so some expect the worse when something doesn't work.
Merely confirming that the app in question is available and working as StreamerUser did is far more useful to the Roku Community and its users than responses that attempt to denigrate the users of an app. It is easy to mock and criticize. Sometimes, it really is more difficult to do better.
- ItsWhatever4 months agoReel Rookie
Weird. I’d argue your reply sounds like an almost absolute illustration of manufactured outrage. Five paragraphs and no help offered? And disguising a dig as a suggestion isn’t helpful; it makes you Machiavellian. You literally virtue-signaled in lieu of actual virtue. The internet needs some censorship of mid-life-crisis Karen Logorrhea after wine o’clock so the rest of us who don’t care about opinions don’t have to dig through unhelpful diatribes on a troubleshooting forum.
lmao.
- easytodobetter4 months agoRoku Guru
Calm down, you sound triggered.
I don't think you know what virtue signaling is.
I called out a toxic platform in a non-personal, factual way, and I sourced my reference from an unbiased and reputable site.
You can't "signal" less than that. It's just a discussion about ethics that you're confused by since you never discuss ethics.
Manufactured outrage = being upset at something that didn't happen, aka "waaaaa my rumble is blocked" and they simply can't use the search feature.
People on both sides of the political aisle have condemned that platform, and it violates Roku's terms anyway. This is a joke.
- ItsWhatever3 months agoReel Rookie
"Calm down, you sound triggered," says the person condescending other users from an imaginary SoapBox.
Lemme just say that again in case it didn't register (I have a feeling you hear that a lot online): you're whining about politics in a ROKU FORUM. Nothing says "Zero friends in IRL is the price I pay to be this God-level of insufferable" more than that.
Of course I know what virtue-signaling is; anyone who read your replies knows now too. I'm sure you (and only you) really thought you were doing something there.
But do you know what "non-personal" means? Just kidding. Rhetorical. "Words have definitions," remember? Let's look at your reply to @AvsGunnar (whose post is FAR less opinionated and toxic than yours; I've no idea how that user leans politically, which is the preferred experience for most users).
Did you really think you were gonna gaslight anyone here? Just kidding. Also rhetorical.
Here're just a few of your self-proclaimed "factual" and "non-personal" quotes (I've taken the liberty of identifying the non-factual or personal words to help you):
- I dislike a platform [Rumble] loaded with hate (also defamatory, my Watch History could attest)
- You're simping for corporations.
- ALWAYS a conservative (btw, your inference of OP here is bigoted, not to mention an honest person doesn't think in absolutes)
- What a load.
- No surprise you totally ignored the source
- [your thinking] is comically naive. You're very good at sounding smart, though (ironically, you're not)
My Watch History is predominantly cat, puppy, and gaming videos, all of which are less toxic than your posts, yet I have a feeling YOU would wrongly assume things about ME because of a platform I use.
If you were the decent person you tell yourself (and try to convince the rest of the eWorld one post at a time) you are, you might consider, oh, I don't know...that maybe I don't have to worry about ElsaGate on Rumble. (At least not yet.)
Heed your own words in this context: "Keep defending [yourself], and shaming users who dislike hateful [people like you]. Real classy."
Or: "There are things that can't be manipulated, like [one's ability to think critically]...".
Hope you found this enlightening, but I suspect you're too bigoted and indignant to see any point other than your own, or you're too 'triggered' and fuming now to engage honestly. Your type's pretty predictable. Whichever. You do you, queen; either works for me. 😎
lmao.