Storing and serving other people's videos still costs money. Suppose we're all just doing this on a federated basis one day, decentralized and anonymous. Should

Storing and serving other people's videos still costs money. Suppose we're all just doing this on a federated basis one day, decentralized and anonymous. Shouldn't we each have a right to know what we're paying to host? Just because I'm willing to leave a server on seeding esoteric documentaries from the 50s doesn't mean I'm willing to let people use it to spread hate speech or child porn or whatever someone thinks they have a "right" to be heard saying. It is a shame that control of major channels tends to become centralized and ultimately that weakens free speech on those platforms, but this is a cyclical process. When one falls, there's a period of anarchy before another arises. The underlying reason is that most people don't have the time or patience to run their own servers, so they delegate that, but they also expect whoever they delegate it to to follow certain basic principles, and those become harder to enforce as it scales without causing the initial freedom of the platform to deteriorate. Like, Elon's idea of making a more free Twitter, or someone else who launches a no-holds-barred Youtube, just won't gain traction right now. That's not because they're going to be suppressed by a hidden cabal bent on silencing unpopular speech. It's because the majority of people who currently delegate the task of weeding out bad things to Youtube are more or less okay with people like this guy being removed. If or when that changes, something else will rise up in its place, but it's doubtful that such a platform won't run into the exact same problems a few years later.