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Re:YouTube bans comments on all videos of children by nradov on Thursday February 28, 2019 @04:37PM (#19275470)
That's only true for "professional" content creators. The silent majority of creators don't care about monetization and won't be impacted.
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Re:YouTube bans comments on all videos of children by dosshell on Thursday February 28, 2019 @04:52PM (#19275594)
I guess I'm reading the words to strictly

- We will stop giving you money

- We will force you to stop by delete the channel

I guess it can feel the same for many creators and be the same thing when communicating on twitter. (No sarcasm intended)

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Re:YouTube bans comments on all videos of children by mulmen on Thursday February 28, 2019 @09:03PM (#19277368)
Where does it strictly say they will delete the channel?
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Re:YouTube bans comments on all videos of children by jachee on Thursday February 28, 2019 @10:54PM (#19277794)
His point is that it doesn't.
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Re:YouTube bans comments on all videos of children by Mirioron on Thursday February 28, 2019 @04:49PM (#19275574)
The majority of content that is watched on Youtube is monetized and people do depend on it to some degree. If they didn't, then they wouldn't be on Youtube, because there are plenty of other services that offer you the ability to upload videos for free.
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Re:YouTube bans comments on all videos of children by macintux on Thursday February 28, 2019 @08:23PM (#19277180)
> because there are plenty of other services that offer you the ability to upload videos for free.

Even without monetization, the community/discoverability benefits of YT have to be appealing. As much distaste as I have for Google, the ability to find a plurality (at least) of the content related to my area of interest in one place is quite appealing.

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