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Re:YouTube and Reddit roll out new restrictions including ch... by GCU-Empiricist on Thursday March 22, 2018 @08:52AM (#16648165)
The sad thing is they seem to be oblivious to the fact that they are potentially the dominant media being attacked by the legacy media because their idealism worked and they are gaining market-share, but they keep walking away from what made them so successful.
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Re:YouTube and Reddit roll out new restrictions including ch... by Scoundreller on Thursday March 22, 2018 @04:24PM (#16652388)
The media companies may have killed Napster, but that had no long term effect on piracy.

1 provider falls and 5 more grow from the ashes, less vulnerable than their predecessor.

It plays out the same way every time.

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Re:YouTube and Reddit roll out new restrictions including ch... by mike10010100 on Thursday March 22, 2018 @04:22PM (#16652376)
It's because they're beholden to advertisers rather than their users.
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Re:YouTube and Reddit roll out new restrictions including ch... by CompanionCuuube on Friday March 23, 2018 @11:59AM (#16659394)
The advertisers are the consumers, the users are the product.
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