Re:YouTube says it has ‘no obligation’ to host anyone’s video
by zozbot234 on Monday November 11, 2019 @01:26PM
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> It's hard to compete with YouTube if your revenue model is ads and your content is "The stuff that YouTube wouldn't touch."
Um, there is an established industry that manages this just fine.
Re:YouTube says it has ‘no obligation’ to host anyone’s video
by shadowgovt on Monday November 11, 2019 @01:29PM
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You are correct; I completely discounted porn (which is also picking up the advertisers that YT sheds).
But porn sites generally aren't going to be hosting pro-Nazi garbage because their advertisers also don't want to be associated with it. Reduces to the same problem. It does, perhaps, point to a possibility; much as the porn sites gain on the fact that YT filters both the content and the advertising it allows on the network, one could imagine a hyper-niche site that is combining content YT kicks off with another (non-porn) category of advertisers YT kicks off.
Gun manufacturers come to mind.
It's hard to compete with YouTube if your revenue model is ads and your content is "The stuff that YouTube wouldn't touch." Most of the ad industry doesn't want to associate with that content; that's part of the reason YouTube doesn't want to touch it. So a competitor going the road of trying to host that content would probably need to find a revenue model that isn't ad-based, for starters. That's gonna be a challenge (subscription-based model for Nazi-sympathetic content? ;) ).