“If even a portion of those 9.3 billion views had occurred on Rumble’s website instead of YouTube, that would have generated well in excess of 100 million additional video uploads to the Rumble platform, which in turn would have generated billions of more views on the platform, and massive amounts of additional revenue for it and its content creators,” said Rumble in the lawsuit.
Rumble, Parler, and the conservative-wing
Rumble like Parler, is famous for welcoming right-wingers including conservative political commentator Dan Bonging, Diamond and Silk, and Fox presenter Sean Hannity.
Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski regularly shares tweets welcoming right-wing influential figures joining its platform.
🚨 Breaking 🚨
One of the leaders in the fight against big tech censorship, the great one, @marklevinshow is now on Rumble!
To subscribe to his channel, please go to https://t.co/88cIThOvY8
— Chris Pavlovski (@chrispavlovski) January 2, 2021
Rumble’s complaint followed Parler’s lawsuit against Amazon. The microblogging company accused the e-commerce giant of of anti-competitive behavior and moving against it for political reasons.