Re:Minnesota woman broadcasts police stop and shooting on Fa...
by thaumasiotes on Thursday July 07, 2016 @02:10AM
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> Youtube is still a dominating player even though we have HTML5 video support in all browsers.
It's not like widespread HTML5 video support marks some significant change in the landscape. We had flash support in all browsers forever; that's how youtube came about in the first place. It wasn't difficult at all to make another website that also served flash videos. It still isn't.
What youtube does that's difficult is agree to host the content. HTML5 does nothing for that.
We need to make a conscious effort to move away from these sole repositories of humanity's video content. Youtube is still a dominating player even though we have HTML5 video support in all browsers. As mentioned before social media sites are not ideal for this job because of onerous terms of service and arbitrary removals. "What police brutality? I don't see it." Control the content and you control the narrative. Ideally in the future we'll look back and laugh at the fact that we all entrusted our videos to a private company's servers but considering how storage space keeps going down and the "cloud" keeps getting shoved down our throats, I'm not optimistic.