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You want YouTube to be one way, but it's the other way. Protest. Boycott. Build alternatives. This is how you fight corrupt corporations. It makes no sense to

You want YouTube to be one way, but it's the other way. Protest. Boycott. Build alternatives. This is how you fight corrupt corporations. It makes no sense to force YouTube to host all content for free. YouTube is a video entertainment business, it's not insulin or a house. Again, it's a video entertainment site. It is wholly unimportant in reality. The only power YouTube has is the power society willingly gives it by visiting the website. Society needs to take responsibility for its own browser history. Upload your video somewhere else on the internet.

mevile 7y ago
Is that a Wire reference <3
- root_axis 7y ago
  :) I wish it were more relevant (YouTube is like Marlo somehow), but I just like the quote lol.
50656E6973 7y ago
>it's not insulin or a house. Again, it's a video entertainment site. It is wholly unimportant in reality. It's the greatest library of educational content in human history.
- root_axis 7y ago
  Why do you think that? YouTube has lots of content, some of it excellent, but the vast majority of it is of dubious educational quality with tons of trash and misinformation. Much of the educational content that is worthwhile is also superficial compared to other sites on the internet that have quality and accuracy standards for their content. Some examples include khan academy, coursera, and udemy. I'd even include wikipedia before YouTube. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-subscribed_YouTube_channels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-subscribed_YouTub... YouTube is mostly about video entertainment.
  - MFLoon 7y ago
    I think you're both right. It's very dilute, but even so it's many orders of magnitude bigger than the counter-examples you give, and even given the dubious content you have to wade through, the absolute volume of high quality info you can find there is unprecedented. Also it's much lower friction to access (well Wikipedia is about the same, but all the others are gated to varying degrees). So I would contend that YT is uniquely significant as a repository of educational material. That all being said, I agree with your original point - how they moderate/censor that content is and always has been solely YT's prerogative.
  - 50656E6973 7y ago
    Yes it is moreso full of garbage of course, but still contains a wider variety and higher quantity of educational content than any other site.

mevile 7y ago

Is that a Wire reference <3

root_axis 7y ago
:) I wish it were more relevant (YouTube is like Marlo somehow), but I just like the quote lol.

50656E6973 7y ago

>it's not insulin or a house. Again, it's a video entertainment site. It is wholly unimportant in reality. It's the greatest library of educational content in human history.

root_axis 7y ago
Why do you think that? YouTube has lots of content, some of it excellent, but the vast majority of it is of dubious educational quality with tons of trash and misinformation. Much of the educational content that is worthwhile is also superficial compared to other sites on the internet that have quality and accuracy standards for their content. Some examples include khan academy, coursera, and udemy. I'd even include wikipedia before YouTube. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-subscribed_YouTube_channels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-subscribed_YouTub... YouTube is mostly about video entertainment.
- MFLoon 7y ago
  I think you're both right. It's very dilute, but even so it's many orders of magnitude bigger than the counter-examples you give, and even given the dubious content you have to wade through, the absolute volume of high quality info you can find there is unprecedented. Also it's much lower friction to access (well Wikipedia is about the same, but all the others are gated to varying degrees). So I would contend that YT is uniquely significant as a repository of educational material. That all being said, I agree with your original point - how they moderate/censor that content is and always has been solely YT's prerogative.
- 50656E6973 7y ago
  Yes it is moreso full of garbage of course, but still contains a wider variety and higher quantity of educational content than any other site.