Comment by RestlessMind
5 years ago
> They've deplatformed or suppressed most of my favorite YouTubers anyway
> They're a monopoly and the leader of a winner-take-all market.
There is some cognitive dissonance in there, particularly with "deplatforming" and "monopoly" part. If your favorite creators are all gone, why don't you just stop using that service? (I have done exactly that, tbh).
There's no dissonance. A monopoly has the capacity to remove anyone from their platform with no real reprocussions, so that's what they do.
why don't you just stop using that service?
There are no real alternatives to YouTube that any real content creators are willing to move to, and there are still some users that I watch, so I download the videos and don't support the platform. I have my cake and eat it too, so to speak.