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Re:The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire by treeman79 on Friday December 11, 2020 @06:31PM (#25393123)
Alternative view point sites aren’t really possible.

Advertisers are attacked relentlessly if they advertise on non-liberal media. Been at ad-tech companies and seen this happen in person.

Even 20 years ago this was common pattern for talk radio.

Re:The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire by MaxBarraclough on Friday December 11, 2020 @06:35PM (#25393187)
> Alternative view point sites aren’t really possible.

They're certainly possible for alternatives to, say, reddit. These sites already exist. Are you referring to the high costs of serving video?

Re:The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire by treeman79 on Friday December 11, 2020 @06:41PM (#25393239)
Video.

Forums are one thing.

Hosting huge amounts of videos, adding in all the security to keep DOS from taking out the system is a lot of money.

Oh and since most sites do this all for free, you can’t really change anything either.

Re:The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire by jfrunyon on Friday December 11, 2020 @07:05PM (#25393510)
Oh, you're SO right. Fox News has so much trouble getting advertisers. So do Rush Limbaugh and Alex Jones.
Re:The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire by treeman79 on Friday December 11, 2020 @07:12PM (#25393569)
Fox News has crappy advertisers. Ones that don’t give a crap what others think. Need some gold coins?

Rush used to talk all the time about the nasty calls his clients got.

It was routine for them to get flooded with hate calls.

Re:The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire by makomk on Friday December 11, 2020 @07:40PM (#25393847)
Yeah, and othre mainstream media organisations - including the freaking New York Times - have successfully campaign dto get many of their remaining advertisers to pull out. To the point where, at least if the people campaigning for this were to be believed, many of the targetted Fox shows couldn't get ads at all.