Free market bros.

(06-14-2019 10:34 AM)Machiavelli Wrote:  Free market bros.

Exxon can't just dump all of their toxic waste in the ocean because it's a free market bro. There are laws against it.

Likewise, social media sites can't act as a publisher, when they have already admitted to being and are enshrined in existing law as neutral platforms.

This is getting completely f%^&ed up.

I'm not much on the podcasts, Youtubes etc., but I know that a lot of people are and of course,, that's fine.

But what do these people think their "customers" are going to do? Continue to go on to their platforms to learn how to boil water or do an oil change?

These idiots are working pretty hard at putting themselves out of business.

(06-14-2019 03:44 PM)JMUDunk Wrote:  This is getting completely f%^&ed up.

I'm not much on the podcasts, Youtubes etc., but I know that a lot of people are and of course,, that's fine.

But what do these people think their "customers" are going to do? Continue to go on to their platforms to learn how to boil water or do an oil change?

These idiots are working pretty hard at putting themselves out of business.

(06-14-2019 03:44 PM)JMUDunk Wrote:  This is getting completely f%^&ed up.

I'm not much on the podcasts, Youtubes etc., but I know that a lot of people are and of course,, that's fine.

But what do these people think their "customers" are going to do? Continue to go on to their platforms to learn how to boil water or do an oil change?

These idiots are working pretty hard at putting themselves out of business.

The Pintrest story is fake and made up. Just like that pizza place. Those stories belong on the Onion website.

(06-14-2019 03:44 PM)JMUDunk Wrote:  This is getting completely f%^&ed up.

I'm not much on the podcasts, Youtubes etc., but I know that a lot of people are and of course,, that's fine.

But what do these people think their "customers" are going to do? Continue to go on to their platforms to learn how to boil water or do an oil change?

These idiots are working pretty hard at putting themselves out of business.

Doubt it. Youtube put all of their competition out of business years ago by offering creators a portion of the ad revenue. The same people they lured away from other platforms (to build it into what it is today), now that they are a monopoly, they are now banning for ideological reasons, and there's no where left for them to go. They did a complete 180 of their mission statement once they conned enough people into investing their time and effort exclusively into them. It was fraud, plain and simple.

Beyond that, Google (a near-trillion dollar company) runs youtube at a loss. There will never be any competition, because it isn’t a profitable business model. They keep it going so they can be the gatekeeper on video the same way they are on search.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-com...re-of-news

" “...If others repackage our journalism and make money off it, yet none of that money makes its way back to the local paper, then it makes breaking that next story or exposing the next scandal more challenging,” he added in a written statement to the committee. “If that cycle continues indefinitely, quality local journalism will slowly wither, and eventually cease to exist.” In other words, newspaper stories are posted and read on Google and Facebook, and those companies, not the newspapers, reap the advertising revenue...

...as Cicilline pointed out, from 2006 to 2017 advertising revenue in the newspaper industry plummeted from forty-nine billion dollars to $15.6 billion...."

Committee is proposing a law that would exempt papers from anti-trust exemption and allow them to negotiate as a group with the Googles of the world to get a bigger share of ad revenue.

"Are you AT&T or the Wall Street Journal? Pick one, you can't be both."

I believe Black Pigeon just got his channel back. Just went on YouTube and had a video he posted in my suggestions.

People pushing back and applying pressure of their own seems to be having an impact, at least for now.