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This is a tech update on Brighteon.com, the YouTube alternative video platform that dares to respect free speech. If you’ve been following Brighteon news, you may already know that the video platform was threatened with being de-platformed by upstream infrastructure providers in the aftermath of the New Zealand mass shooting (which was, of course, engineered to set off a global religious war against Christians as we’ve now seen with the Sri Lanka bombings, but that’s another story altogether).
Because of the extreme censorship threats against Brighteon, we were forced to delete videos that showed footage from the Christchurch shootings. Otherwise, the entire video platform was going to be annihilated and we would have lost the ability to host any videos at all. Even now, some ISPs in Australia and New Zealand have completely banned all videos from Brighteon.
Even as that was happening, we were already well into the R&D effort to rebuild our platform to make it more resistant to censorship threats. I’m happy to report that we are now approaching the completion of that effort, and the rolling out of Brighteon 2.0 is scheduled to take place in early June.
This new infrastructure is already functioning in all the ways necessary for hosting a video site:
Video uploading and transcoding into multiple bitrate renditions
Video storage that’s affordable (our new solution saves us 90% compared to our previous costs)
Video playback across multiple devices and browsers
All of this is now working internally, and it’s going to be rolled out soon as part of Brighteon 2.0.
Once this new infrastructure is rolled out, we will be able to lift restrictions on content which is currently not allowed. For example, the Christchurch shooting video footage — which is historically important for researchers to view because of all the anomalies contained in the footage — will once again be able to be posted.
We will also be lifting the current ban on video game footage, which we had previously disallowed due to the very high storage costs that were causing us to lose a considerable amount of money each month. Now, with a 90% reduction in storage costs, we will once again be able to host videos which otherwise would not have been financially feasible.
Here’s the biggest news in all this: We will be announcing Twitter-like functionality on Brighteon.com later this year, transforming the video platform into a social media platform with video capabilities.
This new feature set will allow all account owners to not only post videos, but also to post short text messages containing hyperlinks.
Users who follow specific channels will see all text messages and new videos from those channels on their own Brighteon home pages. In other words, when a user logs in, they will see their personalized “wall” of new content, populated from the channels they are following. That content will consist of new videos, and new text messages.
Importantly, there will be no shadowbanning, EVER.
Sign up now at Brighteon.com to reserve your channel name (it’s free to join). You can begin posting videos immediately, or you can just reserve your account and sit on it until we launch our social media features later this year:
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