YouTube removes interview with professor of medicine on Covid stats and policy

Re:YouTube removes interview with professor of medicine on C... by scottLobster on Thursday May 21, 2020 @04:43PM (#23264928)

Walmart is not ubiquitous in terms of property the same way Youtube is in terms of streaming video. If you want to protest you can easily avoid Walmart. Likewise if you want to publish a book you can easily avoid Walmart.

If you want to communicate to a large audience with streaming video in the US (and many other nations), it's Youtube or nothing unless you have an already established audience (which you probably established on Youtube).

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Re:YouTube removes interview with professor of medicine on C... by xphilter on Thursday May 21, 2020 @04:59PM (#23265238)

I don’t follow. When you protest at Walmart you aren’t guaranteed an audience either (people can ignore you and walk away). And when you make a video you don’t get granted an audience either. Why should YouTube have to help you out?

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Re:YouTube removes interview with professor of medicine on C... by RonanTheGrey on Thursday May 21, 2020 @11:36PM (#23268433)

And people can walk away on Youtube, too. That's the equivalent.

Having an audience and Youtube not taking it away, is not the same thing as Youtube intentionally helping you build your audience.

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