To be fair, one thing often overlooked is these things don’t run in rainbows and unicorn dust. Especially a video platform. $$. To expect it completely free is kind of crazy.
I’d be willing to devote taxes to social media without ads and featuring a non-malevolent algorithm. If it allowed people to communicate with each other like Twitter or Facebook, it would be a service to the benefit of the public.
Once upon a time, at least here in the states, we believed in a government that served the public good.
To be fair, one thing often overlooked is these things don’t run in rainbows and unicorn dust. Especially a video platform. $$. To expect it completely free is kind of crazy.
Have to pay for the slop generating propaganda machine somehow.
I’d be willing to devote taxes to social media without ads and featuring a non-malevolent algorithm. If it allowed people to communicate with each other like Twitter or Facebook, it would be a service to the benefit of the public.
Once upon a time, at least here in the states, we believed in a government that served the public good.
Reminder that it took nearly 10 years for YouTube to start making profit. At some point the platform was burning around billion dollars per year.