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Re:YouTube removes interview with professor of medicine on C... by unethical_ban on Thursday May 21, 2020 @04:23PM (#23264595)
Youtube

Vimeo

Name the next five that are discoverable, host your videos for free, and can stream that to millions of people in a single day.

Re:YouTube removes interview with professor of medicine on C... by sangnoir on Thursday May 21, 2020 @05:47PM (#23265838)
> ... discoverable, host your videos for free, and can stream that to millions of people in a single day

No one has an inalienable right to any of these features, let alone to all of them in a neat package. The organizations that invest ingenuity, capital and labor to create platforms with those features do have a right to set terms on how their platforms is used.

I don't get how the solution to what is seen as corporate authoritarianism (on private property) is asking for more authoritarianism (by the government) to force persons to host content they'd rather not.

Re:YouTube removes interview with professor of medicine on C... by polynomial on Thursday May 21, 2020 @08:03PM (#23267142)
TBF, these are more like entitlements than rights.
Re:YouTube removes interview with professor of medicine on C... by Cyph0n on Thursday May 21, 2020 @05:49PM (#23265855)
We’ve already covered discoverability: you have no right to an “audience”.

As far as being able to reach millions of people per day for free, why do you think that’s a right, exactly? The fact that the websites you listed are footing the bill for you doesn’t mean that serving content (i.e., bandwidth) in general is “free”.

Re:YouTube removes interview with professor of medicine on C... by unethical_ban on Thursday May 21, 2020 @08:03PM (#23267140)
I don't think there is a right, but don't act like there are a million equivalents to Youtube.
Re:YouTube removes interview with professor of medicine on C... by gknoy on Thursday May 21, 2020 @04:37PM (#23264846)
As a contrarian view, do our rights require it to be _cheap_? AWS + a domain name (`www.the-moon-really-is-made-of-cheese.com`) seems like something that is available to everyone.

- It's not cheap - It's not easy

However, it's a platform of speech that is available to everyone, and if you want to scale to millions, one can add the same caching layers etc that FAANG can. We've seen this kind of thing when people were banned from twitter or whatever, and ended up migrating to other twitter-competitors. Newspapers are not required to post our opinions, and I don't think youtube is either.

Re:YouTube removes interview with professor of medicine on C... by majewsky on Thursday May 21, 2020 @05:12PM (#23265418)
> AWS + a domain name [for video hosting]

Have fun with that egress bill when your video goes viral.

Re:YouTube removes interview with professor of medicine on C... by polynomial on Thursday May 21, 2020 @08:05PM (#23267162)
"that's a good problem to have" doesn't really work when it bankrupts you/your company.