I'd happily support DS, but unfortunately the only effective ways to correct Youtube are lawsuit and boycott. What we really need is an "innocent until proven guilty" creator-friendly alternative with a commitment to a transparency. Complaints, defenses, and arbitration results should all be public. Contested videos should be left up but flagged until arbitration occurs, with links to the complainant's and creator's histories available to indicate how strong or weak their complaint is likely to be. Even just a "won/lost" counter would be enough. Why no wannabe YouTube competitor has taken this business model upon themselves is utterly beyond me. Free speech seems to be working for Twitter-competitor gab.ai.
If you are going to beat youtube you have to offer freedom several degrees beyond youtube. We do need a change in legislation too. Youtube definitely benefits from double standards considering how much they make off of piracy. News, skits, how it's mades, music, vines. Yet despite having a different standard for themselves they are still legally careful, at least a little bit.
What would need to happen is someone to offer a lot more freedom and then by serendipity people get serious with congress asking for more powerful safe harbor laws. I'm really betting on better safe harbor laws. What we need to do is have the alt-right pressure Trump into giving us better laws here because the alt-right are the ones being censored. I think without us making it a defining feature of whether or not we are happy with his presidency things look to be going the other way even with him. He needs to understand this is important to us and that if he wants to punch the media back he needs to make the environment where youtube and twitter's competitors can thrive. I'm not sure it's no his radar. We have to push him. We have to tell him we want new laws that will give alternatives protection.
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oldchangling ago
I'd happily support DS, but unfortunately the only effective ways to correct Youtube are lawsuit and boycott. What we really need is an "innocent until proven guilty" creator-friendly alternative with a commitment to a transparency. Complaints, defenses, and arbitration results should all be public. Contested videos should be left up but flagged until arbitration occurs, with links to the complainant's and creator's histories available to indicate how strong or weak their complaint is likely to be. Even just a "won/lost" counter would be enough. Why no wannabe YouTube competitor has taken this business model upon themselves is utterly beyond me. Free speech seems to be working for Twitter-competitor gab.ai.
bikergang_accountant ago
If you are going to beat youtube you have to offer freedom several degrees beyond youtube. We do need a change in legislation too. Youtube definitely benefits from double standards considering how much they make off of piracy. News, skits, how it's mades, music, vines. Yet despite having a different standard for themselves they are still legally careful, at least a little bit.
What would need to happen is someone to offer a lot more freedom and then by serendipity people get serious with congress asking for more powerful safe harbor laws. I'm really betting on better safe harbor laws. What we need to do is have the alt-right pressure Trump into giving us better laws here because the alt-right are the ones being censored. I think without us making it a defining feature of whether or not we are happy with his presidency things look to be going the other way even with him. He needs to understand this is important to us and that if he wants to punch the media back he needs to make the environment where youtube and twitter's competitors can thrive. I'm not sure it's no his radar. We have to push him. We have to tell him we want new laws that will give alternatives protection.