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This is all horseshit. YouTube should be a utility, democratically owned and governed. When are we going to stop pretending this profit-seeking ad platform isn’
by beckman466 5y ago
This is all horseshit. YouTube should be a utility, democratically owned and governed. When are we going to stop pretending this profit-seeking ad platform isn’t dangerous, and start hosting videos according to other metrics than ‘monetizability’ instead.
- jackson1442 5y agoI think you're about ten steps ahead of where we are now - remember that _the Internet_ is not considered a utility, at least not in the US. How could we consider a capitalistically created internet property a utility when not even our publicly-funded Internet infrastructure is considered a utility?
- beckman466 5y ago> I think you're about ten steps ahead of where we are now Nah I am a socialist and believe these things should have been democratically owned and controlled from the start. Where you think or hope the steps you mentioned might lead to sounds to me a lot like technological determinism: i.e. 'trickle down innovation' [1], and that's not where I would want us to go. In other words: we're behind, not ahead. [1] https://venturecommune.substack.com/p/go-where-workers-are-and-organize https://venturecommune.substack.com/p/go-where-workers-are-a... (section 'Against technological determinism')