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Re: The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

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Post by kaibee »

gruez wrote: post #50
cbradford wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For over 100 years we have had laws and rules that prescribe that when a firm or industry reaches monopoly statue they must act as a common carrier and not discriminate. Been that way since telephones and railroads. People should understand history, this is not a new challenge and the solutions are already on the books. https://blog.scorchedweb.com/technology/supreme-court-on-con...

>For over 100 years we have had laws and rules that prescribe that when a firm or industry reaches monopoly statue they must act as a common carrier and not discriminate. Was that because they got big, or was it because they were granted a government monopoly?

> Was that because they got big, or was it because they were granted a government monopoly?

The first one. Natural monopolies exist. This libertarian talking point of "there wouldn't be monopolies without government intervention" is lunacy.

Re: The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

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Post by lolinder »

flavius29663 wrote: post #55

This is anecdotal, but in my experience democrat Americans actually believe everything that the party tells them. They quote the exact same lines, I hear the exact same phrase from different people, and when I ask further questions there is silence. e.g. "rich people stash their money" with absolutely nothing to back that up. Surprisingly, republicans can be more open to conflicting ideas and for debate, even though…

I live in a red state and my experience is the opposite. I suspect it might be that when your view is the majority in your area, you're more inclined to shut out opposing ideas as "fringe". It's the "I don't know anyone who voted ___" effect.

Re: The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

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Post by christophilus »

Wow. It's hard for me to imagine how he crossed any line worthy of deletion. He's one of the best Linux voices on YouTube, and seems like an incredibly nice guy.

His content can be seen on Odysee[0].

Chris Titus Tech has a video covering this[1].

Honestly, I try to watch everything on Odysee these days, anyway, just to try to continue de-Googling my life.

[0] https://odysee.com/@TheLinuxExperiment:e

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHeZXkZT_jk

Re: The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

krageon wrote: post #9
AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is apparently a large contingent of people on this site holding the belief that if your private platform is large then the government should step in to force you to host things you don't want to host. It's kinda funny, because it's effectively saying that they want to nationalize tech companies for being successful.

> nationalize tech companies for being successful It's not saying that at all (nationalising companies is a very specific action that doesn't have anything to do with what you described). That said, I don't agree with your premise which appears to be that this is bad. Converting something that is basically a utility already (i.e. everyone uses it and everyone expects to be able to. It's almost unthinkable to have dai…

For the record, I'm actually quite in favor of not leaving necessary infrastructure in the hands of private companies. Although I don't think social media sites are necessary infrastructure personally.

Re: The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

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Post by flavius29663 »

lolinder wrote: post #62
flavius29663 wrote: post #55

This is anecdotal, but in my experience democrat Americans actually believe everything that the party tells them. They quote the exact same lines, I hear the exact same phrase from different people, and when I ask further questions there is silence. e.g. "rich people stash their money" with absolutely nothing to back that up. Surprisingly, republicans can be more open to conflicting ideas and for debate, even though…

I live in a red state and my experience is the opposite. I suspect it might be that when your view is the majority in your area, you're more inclined to shut out opposing ideas as "fringe". It's the "I don't know anyone who voted ___" effect.

I definitely know more democrats than republicans (my area votes 80% democrat). But they are highly educated people (think U Chicago, Georgia Tech etc.) still believing every opinion their favorite news outlet sells them. I find that disturbing. Not the fact that they believe most of the party lines, but believing and defending ALL of them, like the party can do no wrong.

Re: The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

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Post by jostmey »

omgitsabird wrote: post #31
WhyNotHugo wrote: post #18

YouTube has been changing in weird ways in the last year or so. The amount of propaganda on the platform is ridiculous, though very frequently disguised as "news" or "educational". As someone who's been around quite a bit, I can also imagine that it doesn't look like propaganda to average Americans (I'd be glad to be wrong on this). A great deal of content is just plain sophistry too. Inspecting comments, it seems th…

This seems rather vague. Can you give examples of propaganda?

It is rather vague, but I have the same impression. So N=2

Re: The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

addicted wrote: post #10
AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is apparently a large contingent of people on this site holding the belief that if your private platform is large then the government should step in to force you to host things you don't want to host. It's kinda funny, because it's effectively saying that they want to nationalize tech companies for being successful.

You are right. The US has basically been a communist country since the 70s when it passed the ADA requiring businesses not only to serve the disabled but spend money to make sure disabled people can access their services. There’s basically no difference between the US and the USSR ever since.

That's actually a good point, except that the ADA only concerns itself with accessibility to content, not the content itself. What we're talking about is forcing businesses to hang up signs for NAMBLA on their bulletin board if they let anyone hang stuff up at all.

Re: The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

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Post by martin_a »

corobo wrote: post #48
fragileone wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a peer-to-peer video client, with part of it's data being directly shared (similarly to torrents) and part via a blockchain. This makes it highly resistant to censorship and thus is where many people are moving their channels to.

> This makes it highly resistant to censorship We should probably stop using this phrase as a feature Instant thought was "ok so other than this channel it's all racism"

Yeah, sounds like an unregulated place for all the people who were thrown out by those with at least some ethics left.

update: yeah, downvotes, whatever... "censorship" these days is often enough because people tell other people to use horse dewormer or drink bleach. It's not because they're having highly sophisticated discussions about global politics, but simply because they're actively harming people, spreading hate and whatnot. platforms should be able to decide whether they want to "poison" their living room by giving a platform to such content.

Re: The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

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Post by ersii »

happybirds07 wrote: post #30
ad404b8a372f2b9 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The government should step in to enforce data standards and data-transfer functionalities so that large tech companies do not have oversized monopoly like influence due to natural network effects.

Under GDPR you have the right to data portability, i.e. you can demand your data in a commonly used digital format to take it to another provider.

Which usually, at least in Sweden means you'll get your data dump in a PDF. Not a joke, unfortunally.

Re: The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

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Post by martin_a »

Uehreka wrote: post #42
enriquto wrote: post #32

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> Here's to hoping the channel is rightly reinstated ASAP I for one am not looking forward to this. Youtube is no longer an acceptable platform for distributing your videos. If a person who makes good videos is forced out of youtube, that can only be a good thing. Hopefully their videos will help make another service more popular. Youtube terms of service are public and unacceptable. People who get burned by them had…

If there was a clear alternative that’d be one thing, but there isn’t, and I suspect this creator is one of those high-quality-but-small-audience channels where they don’t have enough pull to bootstrap an alternative themselves. So it seems kind of naive to say “that can only be a good thing”.

> where they don’t have enough pull to bootstrap an alternative

Maybe I'm thinking too easy, but what about self-hosting. Some "all inclusive" hosting with Hugo or whatever static page builder you like.

That should be enough to get your content out to the masses.

Throw in Disqus if you really need to, set up an RSS feed and a newsletter and let's go.

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