I don't think Google cares at all about the cost of operating YouTube.

you realize that they have like 100 billion in Cash

thats more than most countries

the content on google is worth far more than the cost of managing youtube

just like managing it wouldn't count as a rounding error with numbers like that

but peterson is a hero for what him and dave reubin are trying

https://www.thestreet.com/story/14513643/1/apple-microsoft-google-are-sitting-on-crazy-amounts-of-cash.html

Thats why they could care less about deplatforming anyone

or what anyone says

I wasn't arguing for google

YT doesn't make a profit

so, even while taking 30%, there couldn't be a competitor that takes less than that

let's please not go with the commie argument of "but they have so much money and are so rich"

if a bakery is rich, you are still not entitled for free bread

That's why alternatives take advantage of torrents and blockchain. Crowdsource the operational costs through passive participation

I'm not disagreeing there. The thing is, there's no way to get a platform to the size of Youtube with those technologies

I don't think there needs to be a YT sized platform tbh. Multiple competing platforms would work just as well, and if you want cringey normie content just gb2 YT

Those people probably largely don't care if they're getting mined

I know people who bought multiple Alexa spypucks

I like the kind of wild west internet we had. But the possibility to reach a high audience decreases by a lot

We don't *KNOW* if Youtube makes a profit because their income is not publicly disclosed. We don't know how much they make off of deals with shit like latenight shows, how much they make to promote products outside of ads, how much they make selling data. Even still Youtube doesn't need to make a direct profit to be profitable. The information they gain on their users is increasing their profit in other sectors, and they are increasing their corporation's power through Youtube which can be used to make wealth in other ways.

If they didn't see it as profitable in some way they wouldn't pour so many resources into it.

having monopoly over a market is more important than profitability

this is nothing new

And media monopolies care more about political power than economic power.

I don't know that ad power is worth more than functional social interaction tbh fam

Yes you can shill your ideas to a larger crowd, but twitter et al do not operate in a way that is conducive to social cohesion

change _germans_ for _refugees_ and you have the future that will happen in 2 years

You mean because the Refugees will cause more deaths and start openly killing Germans??

more openly than they do right now

nope

I mean Military Service

the European Army

oh, true

for the European Califate

https://youtu.be/-hsBl66TLGI

tpusa uses anedot

and that runs on paypal

https://secure.anedot.com/turning-point-usa/c7e8255e4bcecaa7753f1

... and tpusa is a lot more hated than most of these influencers on patreon