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If someone objected to the way electricity is generated, would you demand they live without electricity to prove their sincerity? YT worked hard to become a mo
by leereeves 3y ago
If someone objected to the way electricity is generated, would you demand they live without electricity to prove their sincerity?
YT worked hard to become a monopoly, so they should accept the limitations and pushback that comes with being a monopoly. (IOW, as a monopoly they shouldn't be allowed to say: these are our terms, take it or leave it.)
- _wf2l 3y agoyou will never fight the libertarian mindset on hacker news, you argue about monopolies and they just hear "winners"
- pests 3y agoPeople would have to agree they were monopolies first to even argue about that. Please explain to me how YouTube is the sole supplier of a good or service and how they use high barriers of entry to prevent potential competitors from joining? How do Vimeo, Dailymotion, TikTok, Twitch, Rumble, etc continue to exist?
- rcMgD2BwE72F 3y agoIt's a monopoly to the users, when a source of crucial information (say, a politicians' declaration) is only made available on Youtube. It may not be to the market, because the politicians could have hosted that declaration video elsewhere but that's not the users' concern. They could ask owners to post their videos elsewhere, but that's not the users' choice.
- pests 3y agoHow is that YouTubes fault? The politicians are putting the information in the wrong place. Why not fix that?
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- pests 3y agoIs YouTube a monopoly? I must disagree.
- leereeves 3y agoIn antitrust terms, a company doesn't have to be the only one that exists to be a monopoly. Microsoft was ruled a monopoly in United States v. Microsoft Corp despite the existence of Linux, BSD, Solaris, and other alternatives. The FTC is currently accusing Amazon of being an unlawful monopoly despite the existence of thousands of small competitors.