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Google has monopoly in terms of YouTube. Instead of Comcast, I can use Verizon 4G. Comcast, Verizon, may slow me down but YouTube just simply bans people for

Google has monopoly in terms of YouTube. Instead of Comcast, I can use Verizon 4G. Comcast, Verizon, may slow me down but YouTube just simply bans people for saying things that they don't like.

outsidetheparty 9y ago
>Google has monopoly in terms of YouTube. And I have a monopoly in terms of my living room, and have as much right to control what happens in my space as google does in theirs. Other living rooms, and other websites, can similarly set their own policies. Yes, there's a point beyond which a single company can become so large and pervasive that it shades into monopoly, and antitrust measures become necessary. Whether Google is at that point or not is debatable, but ISPs certainly are. Congratulations on being in the minority of Americans that has more than one viable choice for broadband, I guess. In any case, whatever your feelings about YouTube, this hardly constitutes an argument that therefore net neutrality is unnecessary -- in comments elsewhere you've made clear that you do in fact support net neutrality, so I'm really not clear what this contrarian posturing is aimed at.
- AmIFirstToThink 9y ago
  When it comes to dire situations, if my ISP does funny business, I can choose another ISP e.g. a mobile connection. No different than taking another road to go to the bank. My account and money in there is still safe. If the bank take away my account without due legal process, does it matter if the roads to get to the bank were traffic/pothole/toll free? For a YouTube content creator, who spent years building brand and audience, one fine day to wake up and have videos demonetized and/or account suspended is like bank terminating your account without giving you a dime from your account. With bank, you can get government/FDIC engaged, with YouTube, they are the Gods of that universe. There are private entities, public corporations and government. We hold public corporations to a different standard than individual persons. If DNS can be taken away form you without due legal process, does it really matter if your ISP can throttle you or not. NN has become a fringe issue, yes, I do support NN, but at this point I would rather use NN to show hypocrisy of large monopolistic social media platforms. Free Speech is more important to me than NN.

Google has monopoly in terms of YouTube. Instead of Comcast, I can use Verizon 4G. Comcast, Verizon, may slow me down but YouTube just simply bans people for saying things that they don't like.

outsidetheparty 9y ago

>Google has monopoly in terms of YouTube. And I have a monopoly in terms of my living room, and have as much right to control what happens in my space as google does in theirs. Other living rooms, and other websites, can similarly set their own policies. Yes, there's a point beyond which a single company can become so large and pervasive that it shades into monopoly, and antitrust measures become necessary. Whether Google is at that point or not is debatable, but ISPs certainly are. Congratulations on being in the minority of Americans that has more than one viable choice for broadband, I guess. In any case, whatever your feelings about YouTube, this hardly constitutes an argument that therefore net neutrality is unnecessary -- in comments elsewhere you've made clear that you do in fact support net neutrality, so I'm really not clear what this contrarian posturing is aimed at.

AmIFirstToThink 9y ago
When it comes to dire situations, if my ISP does funny business, I can choose another ISP e.g. a mobile connection. No different than taking another road to go to the bank. My account and money in there is still safe. If the bank take away my account without due legal process, does it matter if the roads to get to the bank were traffic/pothole/toll free? For a YouTube content creator, who spent years building brand and audience, one fine day to wake up and have videos demonetized and/or account suspended is like bank terminating your account without giving you a dime from your account. With bank, you can get government/FDIC engaged, with YouTube, they are the Gods of that universe. There are private entities, public corporations and government. We hold public corporations to a different standard than individual persons. If DNS can be taken away form you without due legal process, does it really matter if your ISP can throttle you or not. NN has become a fringe issue, yes, I do support NN, but at this point I would rather use NN to show hypocrisy of large monopolistic social media platforms. Free Speech is more important to me than NN.