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> Europe didn’t miss the internet bus because of regulations, there were no regulations until the dust settled. False. In France at least, state-monopoly Minit

> Europe didn’t miss the internet bus because of regulations, there were no regulations until the dust settled. False. In France at least, state-monopoly Minitel services shadowed early initial Internet development. Even as Internet took over, communication state monopolies clamped development with overpriced phone bills for a couple of years minimum. It is only when France Telecom got privatized and Free (owned by a former Minitel erotic chat mogul) disrupted them with widescale ADSL development that thing really took off. > If you made the YouTube in Europe you would go bankrupt because you wouldn’t be able to pay the server bills. False again, EU Youtube was Dailymotion, nothing but mismanagement over mismanagement, bad political decision over bad political decision.

mrtksn 6y ago
That's not internet regulation, that's utility regulation. Not different than electricity connection and doesn't have anything to do with the stuff on the internet that turned out to be big deal and countries are now looking to regulate those. And, nobody cares about Dailymotion. The Americans are shooting for complete take over of a media, not being just another small business doing video. That's why the huge capital is needed and that's why Youtube was never profitable until being acquired by Youtube and that's why only now "Youtube ads are so annoying".
908B64B197 6y ago
Minitel demonstrated that online purchases were possible and that folks were willing to pay for things using a "computer". I really wonder why it took PayPal and Ebay to demonstrate that the same thing could be done on the real internet. > former Minitel erotic chat mogul I had to read this sentence twice to make sure.
- PoignardAzur 6y ago
  Xavier Niel is an... interesting businessman. He's kinda our national Jeff Bezos. His video on 5g (in French) is amazing: https://twitter.com/free/status/1338754060434944002 https://twitter.com/free/status/1338754060434944002 "There's a Weber effect and the Weber effect stops the 5g from working because of the sandals."

mrtksn 6y ago

That's not internet regulation, that's utility regulation. Not different than electricity connection and doesn't have anything to do with the stuff on the internet that turned out to be big deal and countries are now looking to regulate those. And, nobody cares about Dailymotion. The Americans are shooting for complete take over of a media, not being just another small business doing video. That's why the huge capital is needed and that's why Youtube was never profitable until being acquired by Youtube and that's why only now "Youtube ads are so annoying".

908B64B197 6y ago

Minitel demonstrated that online purchases were possible and that folks were willing to pay for things using a "computer". I really wonder why it took PayPal and Ebay to demonstrate that the same thing could be done on the real internet. > former Minitel erotic chat mogul I had to read this sentence twice to make sure.

PoignardAzur 6y ago
Xavier Niel is an... interesting businessman. He's kinda our national Jeff Bezos. His video on 5g (in French) is amazing: https://twitter.com/free/status/1338754060434944002 https://twitter.com/free/status/1338754060434944002 "There's a Weber effect and the Weber effect stops the 5g from working because of the sandals."