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To: janetjanet998
WHEN will Congress do something about this?

Vimeo

Stop complaining and take your business elsewhere

When enough people leave YouTube and go elsewhere YouTube will change their practices. Stop asking the government to cure problems in the free market. That’s how we got here in the first place.

15 posted on 06/29/2020 4:56:03 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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To: Pontiac

When enough people leave YouTube and go elsewhere YouTube will change their practices. Stop asking the government to cure problems in the free market. That’s how we got here in the first place.


LOL. Youtube WANTS us to leave. They want us gone and in electronic ghettos like Parler.


17 posted on 06/29/2020 4:57:28 PM PDT by lodi90
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“Free market” my ass. Quit selling that obsolete bullsh*t.


33 posted on 06/29/2020 5:09:44 PM PDT by TTFlyer
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This is a false argument. Alphabet ie Google/YouTube is a monopoly. Due to network effects, the barriers to entry for any competitor are insurmountably high. They use their monopoly power to engage in viewpoint discrimination and hold any potential competitors to different standards than they hold themselves.

The DOJ needs to bring an anti-trust action and break Alphabet up. The same goes for Amazon, Facebook and Twitter.


66 posted on 06/29/2020 5:57:03 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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When enough people leave YouTube and go elsewhere YouTube will change their practices.
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That is almost impossible to do now. These tech companies started out as free speech forums for everyone. However, only when they had a complete monopoly, they decided to make their move against conservatives.
If they censored only conservatives from the start, they would have never gotten this big.

I get the argument about government vs free market. Although, this is not a free market anymore. They control it all, and they know it.
Parler has started doing well as an alternative to twitter. However, what happens when they decide to pull the app from google play, or the Apple Store?
There has to be some protections in place when you hold a monopoly.
That’s why we did it with the phone companies.


77 posted on 06/29/2020 6:08:33 PM PDT by kara37
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It’s not a free market. These big social media companies were set up and funding by Americsn taxpayers via the CIA—and then given special protection as long as they didn’t act like publishers, picking and choosing what was published on their platforms.


79 posted on 06/29/2020 6:10:48 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Pontiac
Stop asking the government to cure problems in the free market.

How cute. You think this is a free market. Ha ha ha ha ha...

You should read up on what the "free market" did to Gab, among others.

114 posted on 06/29/2020 7:29:43 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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