Comment by krapp

The anti-trust argument doesn't work for me. Neither Youtube nor any other single platform represent a "sector" in the way Standard Oil or Ma Bell represented a "sector", they don't "control the algorithm" in any sense beyond implementing code on their site. Certainly not in the way that a monopoly preventing other entities from competing against it by controlling access to some physical resource. Other video hosting sites besides Youtube exist, other social media platforms exist, so competition exists.

And besides, what's likely to happen is that you'll only have a few "algorithm providers" controlling access the entire web which only centralizes it even more.