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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.

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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.

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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.
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