> If European citizens valued their data enough, preferred hosting their videos on EU servers etc. and were willing to pay extra for this such a service would a

> If European citizens valued their data enough, preferred hosting their videos on EU servers etc. and were willing to pay extra for this such a service would already exist, but they don’t. The same could be said for anything that doesn’t always exist. > because no sane VC would invest enough capital to build an alternative YT Perhaps no European VC. The premise of a VC is that you fund things that aren’t a sure bet, on the hopes that a few ventures will be successful. VC has always been high-risk, high-reward, and you don’t need to start at YouTube scale. It is possible to start with modest funding and grow from there. > Given the current consumer preferences no independent free video streaming could compete with YT unless Google was broken up into multiple companies. Vimeo continues to exist. As does DailyMotion. As does twitch. As do Chinese alternatives. Stop making excuses for businesses.