is being shot equivalent to being deplatformed? lol

Government intervention to break up monopolies.

This "youtuber" is a young idiot but not only... And is 100% responsible of what happened. GOD delivered him a message: "You were close, bitch"
=> Watch the way he's completely ignoring this person asking him to stop, it's really like... A complete lack of empathy and respect. Add guns in this degeneracy and you win the jackpot.

In what way are these companies monopolies?

Twitter, Facebook, Tiktok, Reddit, and Instagram all directly compete with each other in the same space for attention and advertisers.

YouTube barely makes a profit and has major competition in TikTok and Twitch and has minor competition in Dailymotion, Vimeo, etc. etc.


So if you want to break up these by calling them a monopoly, you're going to have to pretty drastically rewrite what constitutes a monopoly.

So how would you define monopoly in the law in order to make that change?

This post was edited by NetflixAdaptationWidow on Oct 5 2023 01:55pm

how does that even work today in the context of Youtube? what does big gubment do? for it's sale? are we going to pretend that it's video market share is unbreakable only because Google owns it?

part of the reason youtube outpaced its competitors was due to censorship, not in spite of it. people got tired of stumbling on ISIS beheading videos on liveleak, and record companies were happy to champion the website that would remove nonsanctioned uploads of music videos.

The only way Google is a monopoly is on its advertising platform. They really do have a stranglehold on ad revenue and distribution and it touches a TON of platforms.

but video hosting is nowhere near a monopoly.

right, and even if we call Youtube a monopoly what action from the govt solves that "problem"? sell it? break it up? fine them for their success?

The thing is if you define these social media platforms as monopolies you have to concede that literally every industry is monopolized. Social media isn't even the most consolidated. Something like 4 producers do 80% of all meat distribution in the USA. You would have to go on a spree of trust busting the likes of which has never been seen.


Which, for the record, I would be absolutely okay with.

Youtube controls something like 97% of its market. A handful of social media companies control virtually 100% of their public forum at large.
Its pretty easy to define what is a monopoly by looking at cases like this guy, who monetize their content: Something that is not financially viable on anything but a small handful of monopolies. If someone is arbitrarily banned from youtube, where are they going to go stream? Do you realize how absurdly overwhelming the monopoly youtube has right now is? Twitch doesn't even register as a tiny fraction of a percentage by comparison.

These tech companies are obvious and undeniable monopolies, and its incumbent on the government to break them up to ensure competition, fair business practices and stoke innovation.

What market specifically?

I can tell you outright YouTube does not have 97% of video streaming by any metric so I'm genuinely unsure of what you mean by this.

This post was edited by NetflixAdaptationWidow on Oct 5 2023 02:07pm