Re:How YouTube converted people to flat Earth
by ss2003 on Thursday July 18, 2019 @11:03AM
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They already effectively censor via algorithm. They are a monopoly that should be broken up.
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Re:How YouTube converted people to flat Earth
by MBCook on Thursday July 18, 2019 @11:09AM
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How, exactly, would you ‘break up’ YouTube? How do you divide the whole into reasonable parts?
Re:How YouTube converted people to flat Earth
by pwinnski on Thursday July 18, 2019 @12:35PM
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You start by separating it from Google, so that it needs to compete with other video-sharing sites on a more-level playing field.
Re:How YouTube converted people to flat Earth
by MBCook on Thursday July 18, 2019 @01:26PM
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YouTube is the 900lb gorilla. How would breaking apart from Google (which is not what was suggested) help other video sites?
YouRube is FAR past critical mass. It IS online video. And I can’t think of anything you could do short of shutting the site down that would fix that and give competitors a level playing field.
Re:How YouTube converted people to flat Earth
by pwinnski on Thursday July 18, 2019 @05:52PM
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A big chunk of YouTube's dominance comes from Google's other lines of business including online search and online ads. See the other post today from a former competitor[0] for an example.
The reasoning is that stripping YouTube of Alphabet's deep pockets from advertising would give competitors a chance to monetize as well as YouTube, without fearing that Google will choke off their air supply to preserve YouTube's dominance.
It might not be enough, but it would be a start.