Re:YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke
by montroser on Sunday May 03, 2020 @08:46PM
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Nope, it's not.
The whole rest of the Internet is flush with video content -- it's no monopoly like the phone company used to be.
YouTube is an offshoot of an ad company. A private, for-profit enterprise that uses video content from its users to sell adverts.
Now, if you want to say the Internet is a public utility -- that's getting closer. And if the Internet writ large somehow managed to block certain content, that would be of great concern. That would require government intervention, like you see in China and some other places.
The whole rest of the Internet is flush with video content -- it's no monopoly like the phone company used to be.
YouTube is an offshoot of an ad company. A private, for-profit enterprise that uses video content from its users to sell adverts.
Now, if you want to say the Internet is a public utility -- that's getting closer. And if the Internet writ large somehow managed to block certain content, that would be of great concern. That would require government intervention, like you see in China and some other places.
But that is not what it's happening here.