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Re:YouTube suspended my channel for a video with disclosed i... by bavell on Friday January 14, 2022 @09:44AM (#29935034)
Capitalism is an economic system that works best in a free market without monopolies. I believe the word you're looking for is corporatism, where huge companies have subsumed the role of government (e.g. controlling speech).
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Re:YouTube suspended my channel for a video with disclosed i... by contravariant on Friday January 14, 2022 @10:58AM (#29936034)
The fact that it doesn't work in practice doesn't mean the notion of allowing companies to do whatever they want isn't capitalist.
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Re:YouTube suspended my channel for a video with disclosed i... by AnthonyMouse on Friday January 14, 2022 @11:32AM (#29936578)
The things propping up these companies are laws.

The way you break a network effect is adversarial interoperability. You build a new (ideally open) network by bootstrapping from the old one. But companies use the DMCA and CFAA and other laws to stop competitors from doing that, so it doesn't happen.

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