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Re:Nestle, Disney Pull YouTube Ads, Joining Furor Over Child... by jerf on Thursday February 21, 2019 @10:30AM (#19217493)
"Punishing" is kind of a loaded term though, isn't it? "Not hosting your video for free because of concerns about risk to YouTube" isn't really a "punishment".

As I sort of alluded to already, giving other services an incentive to exist, or incentivizating more self-hosting, I see as a virtue anyhow. YouTube shouldn't be The Video Site On The Internet.

Re:Nestle, Disney Pull YouTube Ads, Joining Furor Over Child... by seanmcdirmid on Thursday February 21, 2019 @12:04PM (#19218311)
It really is, if you could post videos for free before, but now some people in parliament have made it so you can’t anymore.

Other services may or may not fill the huge created gap, but what’s to say they won’t be subject to the same regulations as YouTube? Anyways, the politicians would probably take a huge fall if they did this, voters don’t often buy “its for your own good” arguments.