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YouTube Is Removing Some Nootropics Channels

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How exactly does Youtube have a monopoly on video? What's the underlying scarcity they're exploiting?

Well, they are the de-facto curator of the bulk of our civilizations videos. Lets be honest, if you aren't on YouTube your chances of being searched/promoted/seen are greatly diminished. Maybe to nearly zero.

The only video content I can remember paying for has been on vimeo and udemy.

But then again I'm old fashioned and like to read about stuff on some web site and then click to whatever video hosting site they use.

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YouTube isn't going after 'crazy idea[s] in need of being censored.' They're going after anything they can to shut down as many small channels as they can. Their end goal is a situation akin to traditional TV networks. Far less variety, very much walled off from participation, and much more centralized. This will enable Eric Schmidt and his colleagues to exercise much more control over human culture. He explained tha…

I think this may be a case where the truth is difficult for the general public to believe because it sounds too "conspiratorial".

Well, I mean when you write a book and explicitly say that you believe your company needs to take an active role in guiding global human culture, does it really make it a 'conspiracy'? His viewpoint is not as radical as some people might take it to be. Up until the American Revolution, basically every society operated under the notion that some people are fundamentally 'better' than other people. Kings, queens, chieftans, whatever, were not simply people who were good at leading, they were all believed to be either chosen by or literally a god. It was seen as natural and proper that those people would lead, and that other people were born to follow.

To accomplish great things, it was believed, those leaders have to take the reigns and direct the commoners or else they would tear themselves apart in anarchy. A great many of the upper class still believe this to be the situation (which is partially psychological self defense, believing that they were simply lucky would lead to many feeling very bad about having so much more than almost everyone else). While something like YouTube becoming a way for tons of people to make a decent living, and that becoming the dominant means through which media is created and consumed, as opposed to centralization of media production and consumption under a handful of more directly controlled companies sounds like a renaissance to most people, to them it sounds like outrageous stupidity. It sounds like letting the rats chew through one of the pillars holding our society aloft.

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How do those claims not mean anything? They sound pretty clear to me.

Because the FDA has very specific rules as to what constitutes medical advice and what doesn't. The claim of "helps you sleep" is not medical advice and not regulated. It's the reason so many "nutrition" companies can get away with claiming all kinds of things such as "burn fat faster". That statement means something to you and I, but it's not a medical statement.

The comment I was replying to said the claims had no meaning, not referring to the FDA.

They might be "meaningless" to actual medical professionals or people with decent knowledge of the ways that companies skirt product labelling laws. But the average layperson who might buy these products is probably neither of those things and is more likely to interpret them literally.

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post #189

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Meanwhile MontrealHealthyGirls' YouTube channel is far worse. Her cancer and diabetes "cures" she's downright dangerous, and nuts.

Have you reported the channel?

Yes, often. And the same for Twitter.

I don't understand how she keeps escaping being shutdown or even arrested.

The Canadian government just banned a Naturopath product with actual rabies saliva in it which was used to treat children. At least there's progress.

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Number 1 is pretty much yes, they can. It's a diminishing cost, and the price of storage is very likely diminishing faster than the rate of video production is rising. Number 2, agreed, we in fact know it can only be censorship (and not competing viewership) that drives the decision. That's my whole point.

I disagree. https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-cost-per-gigabyte/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/259477/hours-of-video-up... As far as I can tell, YouTube video content is growing exponentially, and hard drive costs are dropping linearly.

YouTube content is created by human beings. There is an absolute bound to that (record everything everybody does all day long). No, its not geometric and can never be, right?

Storage and network charges are already pennies per terabyte-day. So currently and in the forseeable future, YouTube's costs will probably be administrative.

And that's all beside the point. There's not hard 24-hour one-channel limit to what YouTube can 'broadcast'. So their model is completely unlike a traditional TV station. So that analogy is flawed. So we can conclude, YouTube's decision to show (or not show) anything is based on completely different criterion. Pedantry notwithstanding.

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