Quote (EndlessSky @ Feb 10 2021 11:22am)
Youtube sells a product to consumers.
When youtube forces products on people that consumers dont want as much it is cutting into profits. Its pretty simple to link the two not sure why youre stubborn.
my post made zero arguments otherwise. im not saying youtube isnt forcing their chosen creators on consumers, and im not saying youtube doesn't censor free speech and content creation.
you made a silly argument, that being that monopolistic strategies are the only reason Youtube hasn't gone out of business. my post shatters that idea fairly soundly, maybe read it again.
for any platform to survive in a monetized content creation business they need to invest many many millions of dollars policing content and payments, even if their platform is open to free speech creation and even if their content delivery service isn't weighted to their own biases.
if you make a platform that lets people post non-gore, non-porn, non-incitement of violence videos, but don't police them with a progressive anti free speech bias. basically allow hate speech and whatever else comes, including things people find offensive but are not illegal that arent even hate speech. you still need to spend MILLIONS creating a system to make sure creators arent breaking copyrights, both in posting things like copyrighted books, movies, and music, and further that parts of those same works arent posted and then paid out. elsewise u get ur pants sued off. this is a massive barrier to entry in the field, which your post completely ignores.