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What the hell does he expect them to do? Youtube is a private company. You can't go defending a company's right to not be forced to make wedding cakes, then turn around and force Youtube to support something they don't support.
Does it suck? Yeah.
Honestly, I wish YT wouldn't just go all in and delete them all, show their true colors and create enough demand for something else to be formed. As it is now, trying to create competition for sites like FB, Paypal, Ebay, Google, and YT is almost impossible because they don't suck enough.
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Youtube is a private company.
Not anymore. Not only does Google receive government subsidies (which isn’t directly relevant to the main point), the combination of Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter controls all human discourse in ways never before seen in history. What they allow is the sum total of what information the vast majority of people can access AT ALL. They no longer have the power to censor ANYTHING.
EDIT: Excuse me, not power–right. They certainly have the power, but no longer have the right to censor anything as they are FULLY public avenues of discourse, indeed for the entire fucking world.
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I am sick of these libertarian retards. "Hur, they're a private company, they have every right to shut off my gas and electricity in the middle of winter causing me to freeze to death." Bullshit, that is a loser attitude, there is precedent that private companies that provide essential services are not allowed to do this sort of thing. In the 21st century Google is the public square and it should be forced to adhere to the first amendment.
and if its a private company (google owns it) then why does google have information on people whether they want it or not and whether they uploaded it or not? Seems like google is doing enough to be considered public by now?
Their dominance has been so successful that they're now a monopoly that needs to be regulated, at least to the extent that they can't ban legal content or creators.
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[–] Gadsden 5 points -4 points 1 point (+1|-5) ago
What the hell does he expect them to do? Youtube is a private company. You can't go defending a company's right to not be forced to make wedding cakes, then turn around and force Youtube to support something they don't support.
Does it suck? Yeah.
Honestly, I wish YT wouldn't just go all in and delete them all, show their true colors and create enough demand for something else to be formed. As it is now, trying to create competition for sites like FB, Paypal, Ebay, Google, and YT is almost impossible because they don't suck enough.
[–] Tallest_Skil 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago (edited ago)
Not anymore. Not only does Google receive government subsidies (which isn’t directly relevant to the main point), the combination of Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter controls all human discourse in ways never before seen in history. What they allow is the sum total of what information the vast majority of people can access AT ALL. They no longer have the power to censor ANYTHING.
EDIT: Excuse me, not power–right. They certainly have the power, but no longer have the right to censor anything as they are FULLY public avenues of discourse, indeed for the entire fucking world.
[–] raisinade 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
I am sick of these libertarian retards. "Hur, they're a private company, they have every right to shut off my gas and electricity in the middle of winter causing me to freeze to death." Bullshit, that is a loser attitude, there is precedent that private companies that provide essential services are not allowed to do this sort of thing. In the 21st century Google is the public square and it should be forced to adhere to the first amendment.
[–] Subtenko 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
and if its a private company (google owns it) then why does google have information on people whether they want it or not and whether they uploaded it or not? Seems like google is doing enough to be considered public by now?
[–] Tsilent_Tsunami 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Their dominance has been so successful that they're now a monopoly that needs to be regulated, at least to the extent that they can't ban legal content or creators.