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Your last point is valid, not sure how that service can be truly open. However, they do have a responsibility in the same way a city has responsibilities around
by proc0 8y ago
Your last point is valid, not sure how that service can be truly open. However, they do have a responsibility in the same way a city has responsibilities around keeping crime low, streets clean, etc., so it's business friendly and local business can grow. What they just did is like police finding out about pedophiles and then proceeding to shut down all parks and playgrounds, along with a curfew for everyone to be home by 8pm.
It's not a just a service provided by benevolent alphabet dictator. Youtubers and Youtube are in a mutual relationship (easy to argue Youtube depends on Youtubers as well), and it's currently very lopsided.
- l33tbro 8y ago> It's not a just a service provided by benevolent alphabet dictator. Except it kind of is. As I mentioned elsewhere, Youtube has never reported a profit. That doesn’t mean there is not tremendous value they’ll get from it at some point, but for now it’s huge amount of effort for marginal reward.
- proc0 8y agoHmm, ok I don't the details of their profit model, but I'm sure this isn't just charity and have some plans of profiting from content creators if they haven't already. It's business from both sides. I'm sure YT would shut down if it didn't see the value of content creators.