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for folks with a strong opinion on this, how do you square your opinion on youtube censorship with your opinion on net neutrality? youtube censorship is okay bu
by pmcollins 6y ago
for folks with a strong opinion on this, how do you square your opinion on youtube censorship with your opinion on net neutrality? youtube censorship is okay but isp censorship is bad? i have multiple isps available to me without any change to the quality of my life, but no comparable alternative to youtube.
- charonn0 6y agoNet neutrality isn't about censoring ISPs, though.
- mensetmanusman 6y agoIt is from the point of view of ISPs. E.g. they are being censored from using their bandwidth as they desire.
- charonn0 6y agoThey'd be wrong. "Censored from using their bandwidth" is a nonsensical phrase.
- csnover 6y agoWhat does it mean to be a “comparable” alternative to YouTube? There are dozens of online video platforms[0], plus other places like Patreon and OnlyFans, and decentralised systems like PeerTube. If none of them work for you, you can get a VPS and start hosting videos on your own web site. The difference between YouTube censorship and ISP censorship is the amount of capital you need to circumvent it. If ISPs start filtering traffic, you need tens-to-hundreds of millions of dollars to build hardware infrastructure to run a competing ISP. If YouTube starts filtering videos, you need $5 to rent a server to host those videos instead. Boy, technologists. We used to see a gap in the market and fill it with superior products. Now we see a gap in the market and complain that the market leader isn’t owning that space any more. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_online_video_platforms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_online_video_platforms