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Re:Suspect in YouTube Shooting Angry That Her Videos Had Bee... by jacquesm on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @09:38PM (#16761047)
An employer does not provide a service for their employees, it's the other way around. Youtube provides a service to its users. That you can get paid for that is optional, that the service even functions is optional.

So the service-provider service-consumer relationship is inverted.

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Re:Suspect in YouTube Shooting Angry That Her Videos Had Bee... by _delirium on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @09:41PM (#16761069)
Well, that's at least not the relationship that YouTube claims between itself and the content providers that it has chosen to hire commercially. YouTube's official position is that it has retained them as independent contractors and paid them in a manner reportable on a 1099 because they provide a bona-fide service to the company. YouTube files legal documents both to the IRS and to their shareholders that claim this under penalty of perjury.
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