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Censorship

Today's social media is controlled by a handful of big tech companies, governments. Polarizing topics are censored without your knowledge or consent.

You see what those companies or their governments allow you to see. You can talk about what they allow you to talk about.

People who criticize governments or politicians are banned or muted. Some even disappear in real life, never to be heard of again.

At some place, we have to draw the line. Freedom of speech is not a privilege of people who share a particular point of view.

Conventional Social Media Platforms

Why Do Platforms Need to Make Money?

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Maybe you didn't know it yet, but showing videos to people costs money. Servers need internet access and usually internet access at this magnitude is paid for per data transferred.

It's like offering a highway that's well maintained: It can't be 100% free, you can only try to hide the costs in other fees (like taxes) or monetize it via advertising-posters.

In contrast to your ISP contract at home though, social media platforms'network bills are astronomous.

How is a team of developers supposed to pay tens of thousands of dollars per month?

How to Get Money Quick

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If you guessed ads, you are wrong. Most of the platforms start without ads. They pay their monthly cost with investments. Outside funding from investors.

Those investors paid money to buy a share of the company. They now (partly) control the social media company. Depending on the amount of shares they have, they can exert different amounts of control.

Now, why do investors typically invest money? They want profit. In the case of social media platforms, they place ads as frequently as virtually possible without scaring off their users.

Most investors don't care about the experience. What they care about is return of investment. That's what the platform is for them, an investment. A ressource.

Advertisement 101

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The more precise advertisers can target, the more they are willing to pay. To make matters worse, the platform wants to keep you on it as long as possible. Do you see where this is going?

They will keep you in your bubble to make you stay longer and watch more ads. They have don't have any incentive at all to show you different perspectives

It's quite the opposite. They'll put effort into creating a digital profile that will predict with great precision whether or not you'll agree with a given video or not.

We are talking about a borderline-stalker-like profile that's based on what videos you like, which videos you engage with via comments the most and how long and often you watch videos on different topics.

Additionally, advertisement networks ban certain topics "for marketing purposes" and governments censor away specific points of view.

Your Red Pill 💊

In contrast to conventional social media platforms, we don't take any investments. We don't want to dilute our vision and our top most goal: a platform free of censorship and tracking.

We let users upload short videos about their favorite topics and each video gets the same chance to be discovered by non-followers as every other video. No shady algorithms.

People shouldn't be afraid for their lives because they criticized a powerful politician. That's why we are located in Germany, the country that passed the first data protection law in the whole world. It literally had GDPR before EU implemented it.

What does this mean for you? It means that we are not obligated to provide any of your user data to anyone (including governments) without a german court deciding over it.

Grab Your Cup of Free-Speech

At this point, you might ask yourself how we can financially afford to be so drastically different than conventional social media platforms.

As already mentioned, we don't take investments and therefore have no need for hyper-growth and profit. Affordable and sustainable server- & network-infrastructure was a key consideration, not an afterthought.

We ran some calculations and we are proud to announce that we can sustainable run the platform with a USD 0.50 monthly fee. This means you can buy one year worth of freedom of speech for the equivalent of one starbucks beverage.

We know that charging users for social media is not the norm. As you already understood by now though, there are some severe problems regarding tracking and free speech with current social-media-norms.

With Raise Your Voice, we are building the foundation for freedom of speech on the internet.

A foundation that democratizes the right to hear and the right to be heard. And we want you to be part of it.

We are convinced that censoring content is not the right way our internet should evolve.

We'll email you once we launch

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