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Wonder if their focus on becoming more TikTok like will open the door to TikTok having the opportunity to take a meaningful chunk of YouTube’s long form video m

Wonder if their focus on becoming more TikTok like will open the door to TikTok having the opportunity to take a meaningful chunk of YouTube’s long form video market.

thatguy0900 4y ago
Just put some money behind the effort to make tiktok illegal, solves that problem
- Shared404 4y ago
  Except that effort may well make much of Youtube/Facebook/Instagram/Snapchat illegal as well, at least in their current format. At least, I hope it does. E: You'd think Google's money would be most effectively spent trying to manipulate that outcome though.
  - filoleg 4y ago
    > Except that effort may well make much of Youtube/Facebook/Instagram/Snapchat illegal as well It won't, because the primary rationale for banning TikTok in the US is driven by the CCP-related fear-mongering (whether it is justified or not is a separate question), with a little dash of other common "scary" flavors mixed-in (privacy, algorithms shaping your feed, etc.). As long as YT/IG/Snapchat aren't companies based in China, the hypothetical banhammer hitting TikTok won't even touch them.
    - tanseydavid 4y ago
      YT/IG/Snapchat also are ostensibly NOT state-run enterprises. (please note the use of the word "ostensibly" as a caveat before you try to remind me about The Twitter Files)
      - filoleg 4y ago
        Agreed. Which is why I think it is a ridiculous notion that making TikTok illegal would somehow outlaw YT/FB/IG/Snap as well.
        Shared404 4y ago
        Valid points - I should clarify what I was describing. I've seen arguments that instead of targeting TikTok specifically, we should create a nationwide law similar to GDPR or CCPA, which would also impact other social media. I tend to agree with this stance, though I don't see it being likely to go through unfortunately.
- andsoitis 4y ago
  I don’t believe Google or and social media company or streaming company is lobbying for the outlawing of their competitors. Or do you have other information that the rest of us don’t have? They are not that shortsighted.
  - oboes 4y ago
    > I don’t believe Google or and social media company or streaming company is lobbying for the outlawing of their competitors I think the GP might be alluding to: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/facebook-tiktok-targeted-victory/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/faceboo...

Wonder if their focus on becoming more TikTok like will open the door to TikTok having the opportunity to take a meaningful chunk of YouTube’s long form video market.

thatguy0900 4y ago

Just put some money behind the effort to make tiktok illegal, solves that problem

Shared404 4y ago
Except that effort may well make much of Youtube/Facebook/Instagram/Snapchat illegal as well, at least in their current format. At least, I hope it does. E: You'd think Google's money would be most effectively spent trying to manipulate that outcome though.
- filoleg 4y ago
  > Except that effort may well make much of Youtube/Facebook/Instagram/Snapchat illegal as well It won't, because the primary rationale for banning TikTok in the US is driven by the CCP-related fear-mongering (whether it is justified or not is a separate question), with a little dash of other common "scary" flavors mixed-in (privacy, algorithms shaping your feed, etc.). As long as YT/IG/Snapchat aren't companies based in China, the hypothetical banhammer hitting TikTok won't even touch them.
  - tanseydavid 4y ago
    YT/IG/Snapchat also are ostensibly NOT state-run enterprises. (please note the use of the word "ostensibly" as a caveat before you try to remind me about The Twitter Files)
    - filoleg 4y ago
      Agreed. Which is why I think it is a ridiculous notion that making TikTok illegal would somehow outlaw YT/FB/IG/Snap as well.
      - Shared404 4y ago
        Valid points - I should clarify what I was describing. I've seen arguments that instead of targeting TikTok specifically, we should create a nationwide law similar to GDPR or CCPA, which would also impact other social media. I tend to agree with this stance, though I don't see it being likely to go through unfortunately.
andsoitis 4y ago
I don’t believe Google or and social media company or streaming company is lobbying for the outlawing of their competitors. Or do you have other information that the rest of us don’t have? They are not that shortsighted.
- oboes 4y ago
  > I don’t believe Google or and social media company or streaming company is lobbying for the outlawing of their competitors I think the GP might be alluding to: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/facebook-tiktok-targeted-victory/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/faceboo...