I haven't went on Bitchute in a couple of days, and found they had policy changes on the first day of June.

Terms & Conditions

No changes

Privacy Policy

No changes

Cookie Policy

No changes

Our Commitment

No changes

good start? Also some changes in content sensitivity in order to not become a liveleak or something, looking okay and normal. So I scroll down...

[sidenote: I might be wrong on this, but I don't think you have to put terms & conditions, privacy, cookie policy first on a policy change list, it is stupid design choice since their were no changes (you clicked on the page to see changes!) I think this was on purpose and malicious in order to hide bad PR.]

during consultation with the UK Office of Communications (Ofcom) it was determined that the wording of the Incitement to Hatred guideline was too narrow, did not fully cover the scope of the regulations, and could lead to users not raising reports on in-scope content. To address these issues the guideline has been update as follows:

As defined in the UK Audio-visual Media Services Regulations 2020, this applies to hatred against a group of persons or a member of a group of persons based on any of the grounds referred to in Article 21 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.

they link a PDF of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, not the actual page it is on (this is something you can do on a PDF), or a webpage of the actual article (which provides a lot of aditional information like explanation and case law references) or instead they could have just reprinted it:

1. Any discrimination based on any ground such as sex, race, colour, ethnic or social origin, genetic features, language, religion or belief, political or any other opinion, membership of a national minority, property, birth, disability, age or sexual orientation shall be prohibited.
2. Within the scope of application of the Treaties and without prejudice to any of their specific provisions, any discrimination on grounds of nationality shall be prohibited.

I'm very confued on what this means how It will be applied? I personally doubt this is just posturing. This will be used to screw us over,

The drafters of the Convention were acutely aware of the contribution of speech to creating a climate of racial hatred and discrimination, and reflected at length on the dangers it posed. In the Convention, racism is referred to only in the context of “racist doctrines and practices” in the preamble, a phrase closely linked to the condemnation in article 4 of dissemination of ideas of racial superiority. While the term hate speech is not explicitly used in the Convention, this lack of explicit reference has not impeded the Committee from identifying and naming hate speech phenomena and exploring the relationship between speech practices and the standards of the Convention. The present recommendation focuses on the ensemble of Convention provisions that cumulatively enable the identification of expression that constitutes hate speech. - Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

next section "Terrorism & Violent Extremism"

[sidenote: this is very neat-picky but one of the links appears to link to bitchute but redirects to this website called "helpjuice", which means the link is broken, I do not want an unknown redirect on a hyperlink that is called "Proscribed Terrorist & Violent Extremist List" just saying]

Entities that have been designated under counterterrorism legislation will be blocked within the jurisdiction of the relevant nation state or international organisation. In addition, those designated by the United Kingdom of Great Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United States of America, the United Nations, the European Union or any member state of the European Union will be prohibited on the platform. BitChute maintains and publishes a Prohibited Entities List that contains entities that BitChute has independently identified and explicitly prohibited on the platform under this guideline. As this list will evolve over time, we suggest that all users regularly check it to ensure they are not breaching the guidelines.

Wow they keep their own terrorist list! Based purely on personal whims and not on international court of law (which is bullshit anyway but at least it is based on standards that make sense to be banned globally). Golden Dawn (seems to be the fourth largest party in Cyprus and 3rd largest in Greece until recently) and Nordic resistance movement are on the list, neither group warrants the label of terrorism or violent extremist, no terrorism is known to be committed, the only known violence associated with these groups is self-defense against antifa (why aren't they on the bitchute terrorist list?). Neither group is considered a prohibited entity outside of their countries, total bullshit.

what I find also interesting is that they replaced the "Proscribed Terrorist & Violent Extremist List" with the "Prohibited Entities List" that old list was 98% islamic terrorist groups and then supposed "RMVE" (race-motivated violent extremist) groups like NRM and golden dawn, the new list has ZERO islamic extremist and ONLY "RMVE" groups (is Islamic extremism okay now?), the only one justifiable being on there is 09A, which isn't an actual group with thousands of members but a cult that only exists online and is most likely a federal operation of some sort.

also has bitchute gotten any technical or improved user interface updates in the past couple of years?

use oddysee:

• hasn't catered to outside pressure (like the UK anti-semitism tsar)
• way way faster upload speed (doesn't take days and never uploads)
• much easier to cross-post
• better video quality
• the creators are committed techno-libertarian ancap types