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@thehatter yes this is also what I'm thinking. Today it's nazis, but maybe next year it's anarchists or hacktivists or feminists or Marxists. Whoever happens to be the outgroup du jour.
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People on Birdsite wanting to Forbid All The Bad Things. I don't think this is going to work. People obsessed with banning things just turn into authoritarians trying to lord it over others. It might start with good intentions but ends with book banning and purges.
Life is not a bowl of cherries. We're not "all in it together", as David Cameron once said. There are different groups with irreconcilable differences. Dialectics.
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@inmysocks I'm not so sure about the French case. It looks like Marine Le Pen got 34% of the vote last time.
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@bob @thehatter We are already well into the book burning stage on birdsite.
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@bob @thehatter https://predictionbook.com/predictions/184787
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@bob @thehatter https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/908047462614441984 not birdsite, but getting closer
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@bob @thehatter from predictionbook "How many people need to be censored to satisfy your definition of “purging/mass censorship�"
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@bob @thehatter also relevant: https://twitter.com/mcclure111/status/909955358029959169
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@jeffcliff @thehatter Google is demonetizing across the board. Corporations extract as much value as they can and give it to share holders, and they need to keep increasing the amount of value extracted, or die.
In the short run this is bad for producers of videos or other content supported by Google ads. In the long run it's probably good, because with enough demonetization Google will make itself irrelevant and there will be more incentive for content producers to own and control their stuff. Plus every year it gets a little easier and cheaper to host things independently.
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@bob @jeffcliff @thehatter it's never been that hard to host your own video. What's hard is a) getting it discovered, b) collecting tips...
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@jeffcliff @bob @thehatter ...and c) scaling up to meet demand, ie dealing with getting #slashdotted (or these days maybe, #reddited)
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@jeffcliff @bob @thehatter up until now these have been the killer features of #YouTube and why projects like #Miro and #VideoBomb failed
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@jeffcliff @thehatter I agree wholeheartedly with @bob though that #YouTube's current behaviour which make them easier to transcend
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@strypey @jeffcliff @thehatter Yes the discoverability aspect was hard and the usual answer to that was search engines, but we've seen how well that goes.
Hosting video used to be quite hard, with the main factors being bandwidth and the difficulty of maintaining a server. Before LetsEncrypt handling TLS certificates was expensive and complicated.
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@bob @thehatter so would you say the claim is true?
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@strypey @bob @thehatter ( fun fact : i used to work for a user contributed video related startup/google competitor. )
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@strypey @bob @thehatter also d) dealing with the legal problems, which nearly killed youtube itself before google bought them.
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@jeffcliff @bob @thehatter true, but only an issue for open-publishing video sites (yes it would have affected #VideoBomb), not self-hosting
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@strypey @bob @thehatter Anything that threatens the RIAA's business model gets sued.
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@jeffcliff @bob @thehatter can you find me an example of anyone being sued for self-hosting video they owned the copyright to?