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The answer is we need competition. These "curated, private commons" from amazon to twitter to youtube to facebook to ebay to all of the above cannot and should
by noobermin 9y ago
The answer is we need competition. These "curated, private commons" from amazon to twitter to youtube to facebook to ebay to all of the above cannot and should not replace the free market, which they are trying to do. What is happening here is exactly why we decided Trusts were a bad thing back in the day, although these are "smaller" companies, one point of failure can mean death for a host of consumers.
That or regulation. One or the other.
- sky_rw 9y agoThe irony here being that to many content creators, Patreon WAS seen as the competition to reliance on Youtube ad revenue. Facing demonetization due to politically incorrect content they switched business models to rely on Patreon subscriptions. Now Patreon is levying the PC hammer on many of the same people.
- Certhas 9y agoI think there are such strong network effects for many of these companies that competition is unrealistic. They are in many ways like power grid operators: Infrastructure. They should be regulated as such. Edit: Since there are some downvotes here, let me clarify what I think regulation should look like: Visa/Stripe/PayPal/Amazon/Facebook have to service every business that is not illegal under non-discriminatory terms. (Like F/RAND for technical standards.) Simple rule. One they can point to when moral guardians come knocking and demand they stop doing business with the devil.