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So did YouTube, yet you don't see their executives being stopped and searched at borders.

• adnam 9y ago
  Which is obviously not the same thing.
• vinceguidry 9y ago
  YouTube's only a platform in the technological sense. Think about what it is in the very basic sense, a raised platform in a public area. While YouTube is public, it is not raised. If you go to YouTube's public marketplace, you must build a raised platform yourself if you want to have one. It's the difference between me publishing your videos to my YouTube feed and PewDiePie publishing your videos up to his feed.
  • thaumasiotes 9y ago
    YouTube actually is "raised" in the sense you describe, relative to other websites which could theoretically host video content (all of them). This is why people worry, with some justification, about YouTube censoring content. And, symmetrically, it's enough for other people to complain, again with some justification, that YouTube isn't censoring enough content and should be punished for that.
    • vinceguidry 9y ago
      Ok, let's stretch this analogy some more. It's not so much raised, it's just a different market. It's the difference between setting up your platform in your local village vs. doing it three days away in Jerusalem.
      • thaumasiotes 9y ago
        I suggest that the relevant governments have always kept closer watch and tighter rein on what people are saying in Jerusalem than on what they're saying in the middle of nowhere.