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Re:My YouTube Earnings by smadge on Monday January 02, 2023 @09:49PM (#34226947)
The digital sharecropper analogy is less about the monopoly position of platforms but about the content creator and platform relationship. More platforms wouldn’t change that relationship.
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Re:My YouTube Earnings by lotsofpulp on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @09:04AM (#34231399)
The platform owner can change the relationship, for example if it’s is publicly owned.

The point is is no one else in the world wants to make the enormous investment required to create a YouTube, so why should they get to make the rules?

It is not technically hard to make a YouTube alternative, just expensive.

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