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Most folks are at-will employees. 1099s should have no expectation of long term employment from a particular client. This extends to YouTube. You may get money
by xapata 9y ago
Most folks are at-will employees. 1099s should have no expectation of long term employment from a particular client.
This extends to YouTube. You may get money today, but they could easily cut you out tomorrow. You don't have a "right" to post videos on someone else's website and make money.
- TheOtherHobbes 9y agoThis isn't employment, it's digital serfdom. The benefits accrue almost exclusively to the Lord of the Manor who owns the digital territory on which the villeins seek to eke out a precarious existence. If content creators removed their content en masse, we'd soon see more considerate behaviour from the distributors.
- anigbrowl 9y agoYou don't have a right, but if a platform owner creates an expectation and then undermines it, people are going to get upset. People are animals, and animals like consistency. Mess with that and they will mess with you back. This is one of those things where just because it's legal doesn't mean it's right. It's same thing with Facebook saying "we value your privacy" and then when it turns out they didn't, saying "yeah but did you read the toS it was right there in paragraph 73(n) lol", or governmental organizations passing laws and regulations that are virtually impossible to ever be in full compliance with.