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With all due respect for those who create these videos, is it not up to google to determine what they do and don't monetize? At the end of the day, it is their
by gamesbrainiac 9y ago
With all due respect for those who create these videos, is it not up to google to determine what they do and don't monetize? At the end of the day, it is their platform, and they will do whatever makes the most business sense. YouTube is not a government service, it is a private company, and as such it holds to right to make whatever decision it needs to make in order to maximize its business potential.
- wpietri 9y agoThe essence of your argument here appears to be "we cannot complain about how people use power", which I think is bunk. Yes, Google has the power to do whatever they please. But the people who work there aren't perfect; one can reasonably dispute that a given action is the best business choice. Although their power over their platform is in some sense absolute, everybody else has power over their individual uses of that platform. It is entirely reasonable of them to tell Google, their business partner, how that platform is working for them. Further, everybody, whether they're a creator, a viewer, or just a regular person has the right to freedom of speech and freedom of association. Google has dominion over their platform, but everybody else gets to choose whether to deal with Google and what they say about it.
- 482794793792894 9y agoIt is up to Google to do that. And it's up to the people to complain, strike and whatnot about it and to leave the platform, if the problem becomes unbearable. This is a perfectly normal dynamic that exists any time anyone is being paid money to do a job.