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> Again, let’s make other video services more popular rather than pretend YouTube is somehow the only way on the entire internet to serve videos. That ship has
by cloakandswagger 9y ago
> Again, let’s make other video services more popular rather than pretend YouTube is somehow the only way on the entire internet to serve videos.
That ship has already sailed I'm afraid. Nearly every common internet service now has a single provider that dwarfs the few competitors it has, both in actual usage and mindshare.
Oftentimes that mind-boggling success was fueled by easy treatment from regulators/the government as well as fate and circumstance, not from any groundbreaking ingenuity from the company that made it.
It may sound strange today to think of social media, internet search, etc as a public utility, but within a decade or two it will seem like common sense. Google, Facebook, YouTube and others are censoring their way towards nationalization.
- toofy 9y ago> It may sound strange today to think of social media, internet search, etc as a public utility, but within a decade or two it will seem like common sense. Google, Facebook, YouTube and others are censoring their way towards nationalization. What makes you think having content standards has anything to do with whether or not a content company would be nationalized? Wouldn’t the first thing to happen under a heavy regulation be something close to television licensing? They have far far stricter standards of what can be shared than any relevant social media platform.