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> if my business is forfeit Forfeit is not the right word. Nobody is taking your business away from you, it's just not a profitable business. > monopoly which

> if my business is forfeit Forfeit is not the right word. Nobody is taking your business away from you, it's just not a profitable business. > monopoly which youtube absolutely is That is begging the question. There are plenty of sites that let you share video like youtube[0] [0] http://www.freemake.com/blog/top-7-free-video-sharing-sites/ http://www.freemake.com/blog/top-7-free-video-sharing-sites/

ouid 10y ago
This is the same argument as the one against net neutrality. So if you your arguments are convincing to you here, then they should be there. If you own a platform on which other people do business which is a natural monopoly, you shouldn't be allowed to regulate the content on that platform. Youtube is a natural monopoly. It's fairly obvious that this is so, but I will elaborate anyway. The value of youtube is the number of people use the site. The number of people on the site encourages people to host their content on that site, more people hosting content on the site encourages more people to use the site. In this situation there will always be exactly one winner.
- keymone 10y ago
  monopoly is not about being most popular service, it's about being the only supplier of some commodity or service. youtube is not the only supplier of video publishing service, hence it's not a monopoly. users can switch from youtube to another service easily. users can't easily (and sometimes at all) switch to a different internet provider, which is why net neutrality is important.
  - ouid 10y ago
    you clearly have no idea what a monopoly is.
    - fox8091 10y ago
      The dictionary disagrees with you. http://bfy.tw/BBWT http://bfy.tw/BBWT
      - fvdessen 10y ago
        The commodity that youtube sells is not only the ability to upload a video, it is the access to a network of viewers. It can be argued that due to youtube's network size relative to other video sharing website, it has a monopoly in that regard.
        keymone 10y ago
        i don't agree. plenty of videos are being watched on facebook, instagram, twitter, etc, not to mention all the asian clones. youtube just seems to be the most monetized platform for the time being, but i don't think it's anywhere near being monopoly in terms of access to users.

ouid 10y ago

This is the same argument as the one against net neutrality. So if you your arguments are convincing to you here, then they should be there. If you own a platform on which other people do business which is a natural monopoly, you shouldn't be allowed to regulate the content on that platform. Youtube is a natural monopoly. It's fairly obvious that this is so, but I will elaborate anyway. The value of youtube is the number of people use the site. The number of people on the site encourages people to host their content on that site, more people hosting content on the site encourages more people to use the site. In this situation there will always be exactly one winner.

keymone 10y ago
monopoly is not about being most popular service, it's about being the only supplier of some commodity or service. youtube is not the only supplier of video publishing service, hence it's not a monopoly. users can switch from youtube to another service easily. users can't easily (and sometimes at all) switch to a different internet provider, which is why net neutrality is important.
- ouid 10y ago
  you clearly have no idea what a monopoly is.
  - fox8091 10y ago
    The dictionary disagrees with you. http://bfy.tw/BBWT http://bfy.tw/BBWT
    - fvdessen 10y ago
      The commodity that youtube sells is not only the ability to upload a video, it is the access to a network of viewers. It can be argued that due to youtube's network size relative to other video sharing website, it has a monopoly in that regard.
      - keymone 10y ago
        i don't agree. plenty of videos are being watched on facebook, instagram, twitter, etc, not to mention all the asian clones. youtube just seems to be the most monetized platform for the time being, but i don't think it's anywhere near being monopoly in terms of access to users.