Re:YouTube takes down independent court livestreams
by colordrops on Monday November 15, 2021 @03:42PM
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There are a couple problems with the "market opportunity" argument. The first is that no, there isn't a market opportunity due to network and monopolistic forces. The second is that there is a fundamental issue with the system itself, whereby both state and private establishment players eventually force any player with a large piece of the market to do things like censor certain narratives.
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Re:YouTube takes down independent court livestreams
by rabuse on Monday November 15, 2021 @04:50PM
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While I agree that network effects play a large role in entrenchment, I wouldn't be so surprised if smaller players start swooping up the dissenters and begin slowly chipping away at the giants.
Re:YouTube takes down independent court livestreams
by phone8675309 on Monday November 15, 2021 @08:05PM
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Monopoly power and political access means you can both strangle your competitors in the grave and then use regulatory capture to regulate them out of competitiveness if they survive your initial choking attempt.
Time it right and you can have a set of regulations tailored to your competitors that only minimally impact you and then, when the next party gets its turn at power and all of your competitors are dead, get those regulations removed in the next big wave of corporate deregulation.
It really is a sweet game. Too bad we'll never get to play it.