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you will never fight the libertarian mindset on hacker news, you argue about monopolies and they just hear "winners"

• pests 3y ago
  People 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 ago
    It'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 ago
      How is that YouTubes fault? The politicians are putting the information in the wrong place. Why not fix that?