PewTube

[[File:PewTube.jpg|thumb|right|165px|PewTube logo]]
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[[File:Anthony Mayfield with Jordan Peterson.jpg|thumb|right|165px|PewTube founder Anthony Mayfield (left, [[Alt-right glossary#👌🏻|making 👌🏻 sign]]) with [[Jordan Peterson]] (right)<ref>{{a|https://gab.com/pewtube/posts/14973460|Gab}}</ref>]]
{{cquote|[[Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white|YouTube is code-word for anti-white]]|||PewTube speaking on [[Gab]]<ref>{{a|https://gab.com/pewtube/posts/15052941|Gab}}</ref>}}
'''pew.tube''' was a [[YouTube]] alternative operated by '''Anthony Mayfield''' with the self-proclaimed intention of being [[censorship]]-free.<ref name=cnn>http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/10/technology/culture/divided-we-code-alt-tech/index.html</ref> This appears to be just a [[Dog whistle politics|dogwhistle]], as the creator frequently supported alt-right positions and attacks leftists. Fittingly, the website was flooded with [[alt-right]] and [[conspiracy theory|conspiracist]] videos.

As of October 2017, pew.tube received between 100,000 and 500,000 monthly visits.<ref>https://www.similarweb.com/website/pew.tube</ref><ref>http://www.rank2traffic.com/pew.tube</ref> The site failed to gain any substantial support, and faded away in 2018.<ref>[https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/pewtube.com.html] isitdownrightnow.com, 24 April 2019.</ref> In March 2020, PewTube’s Gab account announced NodeTube, an open source version of the PewTube code.<ref>[https://gab.com/pewtube/posts/103760492821721774] gab.com/pewtube, 23 October 2020.</ref>

==Self-identification==
{{cquote|A [[YouTube]] and SoundCloud alternative that isn't run by [[Google|Goolag]]{{sic}}|||description on-site<ref>{{a|https://pew.tube/|Pew.Tube main page}}</ref>}}
{{cquote|Free Speech alternative to YouTube and Soundcloud which doesn't censor wrongthink.|||description on Twitter<ref>{{a|https://twitter.com/pew_tube_|Pew.Tube Twitter page}}</ref>}}
PewTube declares that it is a [[YouTube]] and SoundCloud alternative. However, its focus on [[free speech]] is specifically directed against [[political correctness]]:

{{quotebox|This platform is for creators to upload audio and video without fear of politically correct censorship<ref>{{a|https://pew.tube/about|About Pew.Tube}}</ref>}}

{{quotebox|Top 3 groups of people who need to back-up their material on PewTube:<br>
1) Gamers (especially those who are [[politically incorrect]])<br>
2) [[Second amendment]] [[Gun nut|folks]] who are getting banned by YouTube in droves<br>
3) [[Conservatives]], who{{sic}} YouTube has made clear aren't welcome on their platform<ref>{{a|https://twitter.com/Pew_Tube_/status/929442957211590656|Twitter}}</ref>}}

PewTube's name is based on [[PewDiePie]], a videogame streamer.<ref>{{a|https://gab.com/pewtube/posts/15051067|Gab}}</ref>

==Content==
{{cquote|PewTube is still small — it just passed 400,000 total video streams. And the content is mostly amateur postings, much of it extremely disturbing — including videos that glorify mass murderer {{wpl|Dylan Roof||,}} those that equate [[Black brute|black protesters with primates from "Planet of the Apes,"]] and one that puts [[Holocaust denial|Holocaust atrocities to the tune of Simon and Garfunkel's "Sound of Silence."]]|||Jordan Malter<ref name=cnn/>}}
Because the website has a no-censorship policy, users are free to post whatever legal content they want. The website's content is currently dominated by alt-right- and [[4chan]]-friendly videos. On 12 November 2017, some of the most popular videos of all time were:<ref>https://pew.tube/media/popular</ref>

* "Moldylocks camgirl session raided by 4chan", allegedly depicting a woman who got sucker punched by [[Identity Evropa]] founder Nathan Benjamin Damigo in Berkeley<ref>https://pew.tube/user/pol/8VxcmGE</ref>
* "Episode 1: The [[reddit]] [[cuck]] discovers pol", featuring typical alt-right glorification of [[/pol/]] (3k views)<ref>https://pew.tube/user/59922cf2593f020010d73220/59922da8593f020010d73221</ref>
* "Rare [[Hitler]] Speech (English Subtitles) 1939 Defeat of Poland" (3k views)<ref>https://pew.tube/user/warrenharper28/mlpHhwj</ref>
* "[[Donald Trump|Trump]] Won't Win Montage 2" (2k views)<ref>https://pew.tube/user/Bob/yfRPmS7</ref>
* "INSANE MANDALAY BAY FOOTAGE- PROOF OF MULTIPLE SHOOTERS", posted by "Go_Full_[[Breivik]]_1488" (2k views)<ref>https://pew.tube/user/Go_Full_Breivik_1488/jF3Xugt</ref>
* "Obvious Multiple Shooters At [[2017 Las Vegas shooting|Las Vegas]]", posted by "LasVegasResearch" (1k views)<ref>https://pew.tube/user/LasVegasResearch/Ik6J1sg</ref>

While PewTube may have problematic videos, their terms of service do nominally censor libel, [[porn]], stalking, [[bullying]], promotion of crime, promotion of [[terrorism]], [[copyright]] violation, and viruses.<ref>{{a|https://pew.tube/termsofservice|Terms of service}}, Pew.Tube</ref>

==Gab posts==
PewTube's [[Gab]] account reads exactly like an alt-righter:

{{quotebox|The internet doesn't feel the same since Dailystormer had their domain seized, Gab threatened to have their domain seized, and all social media began their big crackdown, Internet feels threatened now & that's what drove me to fight back with PewTube<ref>{{a|https://gab.com/pewtube/posts/15053372|Gab}}</ref>}}

{{quotebox|Cultural war waged by Marxists, will end up in a hot civil war if they keep pushing this hard<ref>{{a|https://gab.com/pewtube/posts/15053385|Gab}}</ref>}}

{{quotebox|Hopefully we can just fight it in the cultural and political sphere with things like PewTube, but these hard-core far-leftists are really out for blood these days, we'll see what happens<ref>{{a|https://gab.com/pewtube/posts/15053480|Gab}}</ref>}}

{{quotebox|Thank God we averted this disaster [image of [[Hillary Clinton]]]<ref>{{a|https://gab.com/pewtube/posts/14990221|Gab}}</ref>}}

PewTube is also pleased to be mentioned on GoyFundMe.<ref>{{a|https://gab.com/pewtube/posts/14971099|Gab}}</ref>

==Censorship of leftists==
{{cquote|I really wanted to allow the far-left ([[communism|communists]] etc) to use the platform, but [[psychological projection|they have been so mean and nasty]]—not good for a community!|||@Pew_Tube_ on Twitter (deleted)<ref>{{a|https://twitter.com/Pew_Tube_/status/903274137954664449|Twitter}}</ref>}}
Leftists allege that PewTube has removed their very-popular videos (including the anthem of the USSR and an audiobook of the ''[[Communist Manifesto]]'').<ref>http://archive.ph/TqGWj</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/6x7xgl/ahahahaha_pewtube_a_censorshipfree_alternative_to/</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ChapoTrapHouse/comments/6x88kl/censorship_free_alternative_to_youtube_has/</ref> After these deletions, PewTube changed its signup page to read:

{{quotebox|Pausing Signups For A Moment And Building Some Security Features<br>
[[Antifa]] Has Been Attacking For Over 24h<br>
You Didn't Think They'd Just Let You Have Free Speech, Right? ;)<ref>http://archive.ph/1CPSl</ref>}}

They later changed it to:

{{quotebox|Pausing Signups For A Moment And Building Some Security Features<br>
The Far-Left Has Been Attacking For Over 24h<br>
You Didn't Think They'd Just Let You Have Free Speech, Right? ;)
Follow Updates On Twitter @Pew_Tube_<ref>https://archive.ph/TqGWj/7d94e22aca09a5c4b97cdab13f9d073b7446c6c2.jpg</ref>}}

In response, PewTube asserted that the censorship was merely a response to a coordinated attack against PewTube by the far-left:<ref>[https://medium.com/@Pew_Tube_/regarding-the-far-left-attacks-on-pewtube-a7a39b1f5aa Regarding The Far-Left Attacks On PewTube by PewTube]</ref>

{{quotebox|During PewTube’s first week of operations, while the site was still very new and security against viewbotting and mass registrations via bots was still very limited, posters on far-left internet forums began to circulate links to PewTube with the intention of disrupting and causing damage to the service.

After those users which were attacking PewTube through a multitude of angles had their account access restricted, a rumour began to be circulated by those on the far-left that PewTube had unilaterally began to delete content based on no other premise than the founder didn’t want the material on the site.

That’s an outright lie and it’s not difficult to prove as such, below I will list screenshots of the people on internet forums discussing, planning and ultimately executing different attacks on the platform.}}

{{quotebox|As you can see, this was not a case of leftists just using the site in good faith, reaching a high level of popularity and then being banned for no reason other than ideology, it was a coordinated attack that tried to destroy the site.}}

Later, PewTube tweeted its full acceptance of a far-left channel:<ref>https://twitter.com/Pew_Tube_/status/930248704195551232?p=v</ref>

{{cquote|The far-left says they're not welcome on PewTube but here we are proudly hosting [https://pew.tube/user/BostonAntifa Boston Antifa]! #NarrativeCollapse [https://twitter.com/AntifaBostonUSA/status/930231047639519241 twitter.com/AntifaBostonUSA/status/930231047639519241]}}

AntifaBostonUSA appears to be a fake antifa account: All of their tweets are absurd and all of their retweets are of other fake antifa accounts.

==External links==
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[https://pew.tube pew.tube]
 Offline
:*[https://gab.com/pewtube Account] on [[Gab]]
:*[https://twitter.com/pew_tube_ Account] on [[Twitter]]
:*[https://www.facebook.com/pewtube Account] on [[Facebook]]
*[https://github.com/mayeaux/nodetube github.com/mayeaux/nodetube] Code of the open source port of PewTube, NodeTube
:*[https://newtube.app newtube.app] Main instance

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