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When the private org has a monopoly on online video. I think it falls under free speech. Also don't play that free resource line. YouTube makes money off of eve

• PaulHoule 5y ago
  Back in the 1950s there were the ABC, NBC and CBS TV networks (no monopoly) but none of them were interested in anything new, different, or radical. Youtube appears to be post-scarcity at the moment but if there was any real scrutiny or unbundling it would appear otherwise. My estimate is that a fair price for online video is somewhere around 10 cents an hour with some additional storage cost that matters if you have storing a huge amount of unwatched videos. (e.g. another 10 cents per hour a month at AWS prices, which are high.) So far as ad revenue goes I think advertisers don't want to be next to things that are hateful or controversial. They don't want to be associated with white people who hate black people, black people who hate white people, people who hate themselves and everybody else like WheatWaffles, etc.