why isn't YouTube a public utility yet? or forfeit it for stewardship by archive.org. having the power to monopolistically decide on the design and technical choices for billions of people using proprietary/black box tech is absurd.
You can watch videos on YouTube, or not, and it ends there.
Nothing about this "removes dissent" since comments still exist. And you know, the entire mechanisms of government and public protest which predated YouTube.
What it removes is the ability for people to gamify a metric. The metric still exists. It's still used for ranking and personalization.
But a brigade of leftists swarming a button on a video that mentioned nuclear energy isn't useful.
yes you're right, who cares about our digital infrastructure, it's not like it is an industry where some of most valuable companies in the world are in, right? /s
