Re:YouTube removes hundreds of the best climate science vide...
by Taek on Saturday February 04, 2017 @04:49PM
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Google seems to have a pretty authoritative monopoly on search right now, which is not decentralized at all. We are safe in the sense of Google failing, as there are half a dozen other mostly decent search engines - that's not sufficient though. If Google starts censoring right-wing websites or favoriting their own political agenda in their search results, would we even know? We would not! There's no transparency into the system.
I guess really the term I am looking for is 'trustless'. I don't want to have to trust Google to do the right thing, I just want it to be manifest that there is no manipulation, and no single point of failure.
Re:YouTube removes hundreds of the best climate science vide...
by dandelion_lover on Sunday February 05, 2017 @12:13PM
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Check out http://yacy.net, decentralized search engine without a single point of falure.
I don't see why a video recommendation engine is inherently harder than a web index (which, as hard as it may have been, clearly was possible). You could probably monetize it in exactly the same way.
Video wasn't centralized before Youtube, but since they began offering free hosting for everyone (at astronical cost! they were burning through their money in record time before Google picked it up, and they have been burning money ever since) and video bandwith is probably by far the most expensive thing on your web hosting bill that's where everyone went. If anything, perhaps there should be rules regarding hwo much money you are allowed to spend undercutting your competition at a loss, but that's a polical decision. It can not be solved by technology.