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Advertisers will always have power, and platforms will always decide to publish different types of content. If an advertiser today wants to advertise with porn

by wrsh07 6y ago

Advertisers will always have power, and platforms will always decide to publish different types of content. If an advertiser today wants to advertise with pornhub, that is a different editorial decision than choosing to advertise on YouTube I shouldn't have to spell this out because it seems pretty obvious. One can imagine a world where YouTube complies with your regulation by providing YouTube, YouTube for kids, and maybe a couple political niches that capture their most popular creators Now advertisers are effectively still making the same decisions that they were, YouTube is still the preferred advertising backend, and nothing changed except that you made it harder for smaller sites like Vimeo to attract advertisers Your regulation idea is reckless because you haven't thought it through

coldtea 6y ago
>Advertisers will always have power Not if laws lessen it. Which is my whole point. >If an advertiser today wants to advertise with pornhub, that is a different editorial decision than choosing to advertise on YouTube. I shouldn't have to spell this out because it seems pretty obvious. It's only obvious within a certain puritan culture. In Europe nobody would bat an eye if an advertiser for a, say, fast food store, advertised in pornhub. People wouldn't want to take them down. >One can imagine a world where YouTube complies with your regulation by providing YouTube, YouTube for kids, and maybe a couple political niches that capture their most popular creators Adults are not kids - they don't need or should require special segmentation from different content (aside from their chosing what they like to view/read). So we'd just needs a kids and an adults YouTube. Plus making advertising on the adults YouTube wholesale: you buy impressions/views/clicks/etc - and that's it. You don't get a say which video they appear on.
- wrsh07 6y ago
  Legislation can't possibly prevent YouTube from sharding into a bunch of disparate publishing entities In fact, the "break up big tech" groups might laud such a thing There is no way of framing your regulation so that it does something useful. Instead it will only ever be a burden on smaller distributers and hurt their chances of advertising (because in order to find advertisers, those advertisers will either have to not care about the content or be convinced that the content is pg -- an incredibly onerous technical burden) This idea that the regulation wouldn't have consequences you don't like because you don't like them is a fantasy None of your ideas make any sense here
  - coldtea 6y ago
    >Legislation can't possibly prevent YouTube from sharding into a bunch of disparate publishing entities Actually it can. That's the whole point, legislation can do anything, In the US case it can even change the constitution with a new amendment...

by wrsh07 6y ago

coldtea 6y ago

>Advertisers will always have power Not if laws lessen it. Which is my whole point. >If an advertiser today wants to advertise with pornhub, that is a different editorial decision than choosing to advertise on YouTube. I shouldn't have to spell this out because it seems pretty obvious. It's only obvious within a certain puritan culture. In Europe nobody would bat an eye if an advertiser for a, say, fast food store, advertised in pornhub. People wouldn't want to take them down. >One can imagine a world where YouTube complies with your regulation by providing YouTube, YouTube for kids, and maybe a couple political niches that capture their most popular creators Adults are not kids - they don't need or should require special segmentation from different content (aside from their chosing what they like to view/read). So we'd just needs a kids and an adults YouTube. Plus making advertising on the adults YouTube wholesale: you buy impressions/views/clicks/etc - and that's it. You don't get a say which video they appear on.

wrsh07 6y ago
Legislation can't possibly prevent YouTube from sharding into a bunch of disparate publishing entities In fact, the "break up big tech" groups might laud such a thing There is no way of framing your regulation so that it does something useful. Instead it will only ever be a burden on smaller distributers and hurt their chances of advertising (because in order to find advertisers, those advertisers will either have to not care about the content or be convinced that the content is pg -- an incredibly onerous technical burden) This idea that the regulation wouldn't have consequences you don't like because you don't like them is a fantasy None of your ideas make any sense here
- coldtea 6y ago
  >Legislation can't possibly prevent YouTube from sharding into a bunch of disparate publishing entities Actually it can. That's the whole point, legislation can do anything, In the US case it can even change the constitution with a new amendment...