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August 2021 Monthly Letter

Greetings to the China Uncensored 50 Cent Army! It’s been a wild time! YouTube has been cracking down particularly hard. We’ve had some great performing videos throttled with age-restriction, and if you saw, on America Uncovered, we had a video completely removed! Luckily after making a big stink about it on social media, YouTube was like, “Oops! We made a mistake. Your video doesn’t violate our Community Guidelines.” And on Instagram, I posted an official photo of the China-Taliban meeting which got completely removed as well. I think we’re on the cusp of another big social media crackdown.

So on that note, we’ve been looking into backup plans. As many of you know, we do have our own website where all of our episodes are uploaded on our own player. But we’re also looking into Locals. We spoke to the CEO and they’re very interested in getting us on their platform. They make a point of being free of censorship, so there’s definitely an appeal to that. Let us know what you think of that idea. I’d love to hear your thoughts.

Other big news—we are getting very close to launching a merchandise store! It’s been incredibly difficult as you know finding a vendor that doesn’t source from China and that won’t censor us, but we’re getting very close. I’ll make a big announcement when the store is up!

And speaking of made in China, we’re thinking of launching a new show entirely focused on helping people find alternatives to made in China goods and products. Decoupling with China is a necessary step we need to take in order to defeat the Chinese Communist Party and being able to find things not made in China is pretty important. So stay tuned for updates on that!

Shelley also recently bought herself a Nintendo Switch, so I’m hoping she’ll let me play. That way we can start a gaming channel. Hopefully if we talk about news and politics during a Let’s Play, we can get around YouTube censorship.

And on a personal note, earlier this week I heard the sound of crying coming from right outside my apartment window and when I went outside, I found a 4 week old abandoned kitten! Currently nursing it back to health, which is going fairly well. And no, I will not name her Chairman Meow.

Thank you again for your support and making these shows possible! The CCP really hates you. Good job!

Sincerely,

Supreme Leader Chris Chappell

Comments

Science is never boring!

China Uncensored

I've heard good things about Odyssey

China Uncensored

That's a great name! And thanks for letting me know about Locals!

China Uncensored

I'll see if she'll sit still for a good picture :)

China Uncensored

This is all great. As a big fan but not a "fan boy" I hate the idea that you'd be completely at the mercy of Google/Youtube and Patreon which has been flaky in the past. How did I not know about the website!? Plug that thing in every video. Locals is a great platform for the sort of content you create. Keep creating it. Especially the things I might disagree with ... gives me something to write about when science is boring.

Hontas Farmer

For those curious, here is a great long form interview with Brendan Eich who is developing IPFS and Brave who previously was a linchpin in the development of Mozilla, Firefox, and Javascript https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krB0enBeSiE

darthgently

Your team might also look into the IPFS protocol that is now supported by the Brave browser (which is an interesting story on its own). The IPFS protocol allows an "internet" based on a protocol similar to Bitorrent where content is decentralized across the user nodes so *cannot* be easily censored. More info below https://brave.com/brave-integrates-ipfs/

darthgently

Great to see you're thinking of leaving YouTube. Their censorship has become atrocious over the past year. I have already demonetised them (cancelled my subsrcriptions). Odyssey, brandnewtube and dlive are free-speech video-sharing sites that I have seen others use.

Dominic Taylor

Whisker Purrhill. Idk silly pun name haha Congratulations on the kitten! You better post a picture this week of the kitten. I would follow you on locals, i use it a bit already.

That Jason down the road

The gods of the internet demand an offering. You can't talk about a cat and not put up a pic. The wrath of the mighty keyboard holders most not be denied! Hurry, before you doom us all! ....also congratulations 😺

Ella Rembrand


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