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Seems like Germany should simply nationalize the platform if that's what they want.
by eli 5y ago
Seems like Germany should simply nationalize the platform if that's what they want.
- whbrown 5y agoIt's not theirs to take. And anyhow, the GDR dissolved over 30 years ago, I should think their economic policies died with them.
- eli 5y agoIs it theirs to force them to host content Google wishes to delete?
- whbrown 5y agoIt's theirs to host the videos themselves if they deem them worthy of being hosted.
- eli 5y agoThe German government? Yeah I think they should host videos themselves if they want them to be online and google doesn’t.
- adamdusty 5y agoI don't think it's unreasonable for companies with publicly available communication platforms be required to abide by laws in the countries they make those platforms available in. If youtube decided that they would host videos in germany on an invite only basis, it would be different.
- eli 5y agoNo matter what the law?
- zucker42 5y agoDo you think Germany "nationalizing" YouTube is less extreme than this ruling?
- ApolloFortyNine 5y agoForcing Google to host content against their will is pretty close. I guess in this case it's better than nationalizing though, Google has to pay for the hosting, and you get to tell Google they're not allowed to delete videos.
- the_lonely_road 5y agoI require guests in my house to take their shoes off. They don’t have to do it, they can just leave. But if they want to stay in my house they need to take their shoes off. No one is holding a gun to YouTube’s head and telling them they have to serve video content to Germans. They want to be in Germany serving video content, so it’s only fair and just that they should listen to the Germans and do what they say or leave.
- eli 5y agoA country isn’t really like your house though, is it? Germany could probably tell Google not to host any videos from the opposition political party under penalty of fine or expulsion. Hopefully we agree that that would be bad?
- neom 5y agoSad you're getting downvoted, I was thinking about this the other day, if nations really want to limit applications on the internet, they need to create a free to use high quality national alternative, and personally I don't think this is an awful idea. Canadian "twitter" provided by a gov entity? I would for sure be interested in that. The ability to use a home grown twitter that I needed to use some government ID to log into and had been thought about sensibility, at least then I'd know what I'm getting myself into. I'm not saying it should replace regular internet, just that I wouldn't be apposed to more controlled nationalized alternatives. I'd like to talk to fellow Canadians, in the "comment section", in a manner that I know with over 80% confidence they're actually in Canada.
- noxvilleza 5y agoYou can make your own Mastodon instance where you could possibly/probably have verification required to approve members based on some Canadian IDs - but it sounds kinda overkill really.
- exporectomy 5y agoGood luck finding anyone else bothering to use it. Twitter isn't just some computer software, it's also network effects and the couldn't-have-been-predicted product of a competitive market. How would the government service be known in advance to become a Twitter and not a MySpace?