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While I definitely do sympathize, these might be alarm bells telling that we've given too much to these faceless corps. Maybe it's time to reimagine content sharing that has full uncensorable control of the creator and reach of today's centralized platforms, with a fair way to monetize.
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This sounds interesting, but are you aware of anyone who has used this strategy with a major social network/content distribution platform and had success? Reading, I wonder if it's the sort of thing where Google’s lawyers could brush you off because companies that large are effectively immune.
Large companies definitely aren't immune from litigation over stuff like this. I sent Google a demand letter for breach of contract for wrongfully terminating my Adsense account. In the letter I gave them 30 days to restore my account and pay the money they had wrongfully withheld. On the 30th day the account was restored and the money was paid. Though I wrote the letter myself, I'd imagine anyone similarly situated…
Could you please share why did they close the account and what argument did you make to have them open it back?
I have the same issue for another Google service
While I definitely do sympathize, these might be alarm bells telling that we've given too much to these faceless corps. Maybe it's time to reimagine content sharing that has full uncensorable control of the creator and reach of today's centralized platforms, with a fair way to monetize.
Trade one extreme with it's failure modes for another extreme with different failure modes. Not sure that counts as progress.
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Large companies definitely aren't immune from litigation over stuff like this. I sent Google a demand letter for breach of contract for wrongfully terminating my Adsense account. In the letter I gave them 30 days to restore my account and pay the money they had wrongfully withheld. On the 30th day the account was restored and the money was paid. Though I wrote the letter myself, I'd imagine anyone similarly situated…
Wow, great story. Please write a blog post about this and share on HN. It would be great to have template letters. Then people can fill, print, and post!
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Large companies definitely aren't immune from litigation over stuff like this. I sent Google a demand letter for breach of contract for wrongfully terminating my Adsense account. In the letter I gave them 30 days to restore my account and pay the money they had wrongfully withheld. On the 30th day the account was restored and the money was paid. Though I wrote the letter myself, I'd imagine anyone similarly situated…
Interested! Could you please share why did they close the account and what argument did you make to have them open it back? I have the same issue for another Google service
Since it was impossible for there to be such a relation I argued that under the terms of service governing the Adsense program my account was at all times in good standing and that by withholding payment Google had breached the agreement.
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The same thing that stops every other form of blackmail, their word. If someone is willing to blackmail you, their word is probably not worth much.
yet ransomware exists and is profitable.
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Most of the time, no. This is common to prevent people from abusing the system more by trying to find edge cases.
Trying to figure out exactly what the rules are is abusing the system now?
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Creators don’t control where the audience is. If there was a credible alternative to the centralized services, then maybe more creators would try that. Nebula is one example where some of the more education-focused channels have been posting videos. Not sure if it’s been successful though.
I don't buy it. Creators make audiences, and platforms know this. Users have to take what they get, but producers have options. This is why YouTube hosts content for free, makes advertising and monetizing easy, works to lower the barriers to entry and make independence unnattractive. If creators switched to distributing through their own servers or a different CDN or IPFS or bittorrent or whatever, they would have to…
How well did creators do when they switched to Mixer from Twitch? Donald Trump had tons of Twitter followers, how many does he have on Truth Social? If you have a two sided marketplace, you need people on both sides for it to succeed.