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YouTube is an advertising company. Period.

The problem won’t be fixed as it’s not a problem... who cares if some piano teacher gets silenced? It matters not one iota to the revenue.

You could ban 10% of ‘content creators’ and it wouldn’t matter: people watch YouTube like they used to watch TV: it doesn’t matter what’s on or how crappy it is. You’ll keep watching. Your favorite show got cancelled? You’ll grouse and watch something else... your consumption of pharmaceutical and insurance ads will not be affected at all.

There will be no competitor emerge in this medium... just as no ‘competitor’ ever emerged in the established newspaper domain.

There may be a new medium that emerges that nukes YouTube. Can’t imagine what it would be.




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