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Re:Google’s Rivals Gear Up to Make Antitrust Case by darkpuma on Monday June 24, 2019 @12:56PM (#20265647)
Is youtube still being operated at a loss? If google runs a video sharing platform at or near a loss, funded by cash they get from search ads, then how can any other company possibly compete with them? By also running a video sharing platform at or near a loss? There is a very small number of companies that could conceivably do that.

This is precisely why google needs to be broken up.

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Re:Google’s Rivals Gear Up to Make Antitrust Case by v7p1Qbt1im on Monday June 24, 2019 @05:17PM (#20268590)
By your logic there would be no YouTube. Or no user generated video at all. I imagine most people (including me) wouldn‘t like that.
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Re:Google’s Rivals Gear Up to Make Antitrust Case by darkpuma on Monday June 24, 2019 @06:05PM (#20269001)
> "By your logic there would be no YouTube."

In it's current form, no, and I'm fine with that. I'd like to see what a self-sustaining youtube alternative looks like. The status quo is not divine providence.

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Re:Google’s Rivals Gear Up to Make Antitrust Case by v7p1Qbt1im on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @01:49AM (#20271496)
> I'd like to see what a self-sustaining youtube alternative looks like.

What does that even mean? Clearly another platform of similar popularity would end up heaving the exact same problems.

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Re:Google’s Rivals Gear Up to Make Antitrust Case by erklik on Monday June 24, 2019 @10:25PM (#20270642)
> I'd like to see what a self-sustaining youtube alternative looks like.

Could one even exist while Youtube does?

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