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An actual town square is a scarce resource (due to being a physical piece of real estate) that's usually managed by a municipality in a way that ensures fair ac
by theevilsharpie 5y ago
An actual town square is a scarce resource (due to being a physical piece of real estate) that's usually managed by a municipality in a way that ensures fair access.
Online video sites are in no way, shape, or form, a town square. They are privately-managed, there is no practical scarcity on how many video sites can exist, and if you don't like YouTube's policies, you and your viewers can easily go elsewhere. Indeed, platforms like BitChute exist in large part to host channels that YouTube has banned.
By moving away from YouTube, you'd obviously lose YouTube's viewers and advertisers, and that may make your video channel infeasible if you're running it for-profit. But them's the breaks -- you're not entitled to another company's audience.