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You can setup a webpage and email people. As well as promote it offline. That's your street corner. Pre-internet you couldn't walk into a TV centre and demand
by mattmanser 9y ago
You can setup a webpage and email people. As well as promote it offline.
That's your street corner.
Pre-internet you couldn't walk into a TV centre and demand to be broadcast to everyone on Channel 73 and now similarly you can't expect to force YouTube to stream content it doesn't like.
Just because a huge proportion of the internet has joined the YouTube club, doesn't magically make it a commons. Theyre the ones paying for hosting, staff, etc, not the state.
- vsl 9y agoNo, that’s your back alley corner behind a dumpster in some backwater settlement in the middle of nowhere. TV never was how people talk to each other. Internet - and particularly the monopoly platforms like FB or YT - are the modern day street.
- mattmanser 9y agoMost street corners are in the middle of nowhere. If you want to go and shout in Times Square in NY or Trafalgar Square in London, you'd have to physically go there, make an effort. What you want is much worse though, you want a way to contact millions or billions of people for free. It is precisely like my TV analogy, because you want the sort of reach only newspapers or TVs previously had, which you had to pay for. What you want is to be lazy and have a company promote you to their audience without limit, while dismissing the reality that there are no limits to how to promote yourself online, outside the company gardens. You could text all your friends your website address and ask them to text it to all their friends. Or email them. Or flyer your website address to all your neighbours. You've still got your street corner.