Youtube is a Monopoly

[Red Spy]

Yes it is, read OP.

ok

As mentioned in freeadvice.com any company that has more than 75% of market share in a general market is likely to be considered a monopoly, and any company that has a market share of that size and uses it unfairly and in an anti-competitive matter, must be considered a monopoly.

this is a completely meaningless point lol. the local gas station in a small town has a monopoly because people don't have a big need for there to be more than one. you don't get consuming is the same thing as voting

not using youtube is the same thing as not voting for it to continue
most people are voting for youtube
do you see the brown townogy

With no alternative to turn to

there's no good alternative because people don't need one. most people are completely fine with youtube as proved by it's success. if you have a problem with that become an egalitarian

And Monopolies are ILLEGAL in the United States.

how are you going to lobby antitrust against youtube? "this website is too successful and is doing something i don't like plz break it up congress" do you know how dumb that sounds?

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[Mr.Noßody]

While were at it, lets also call Disney a monopoly.

[Red Spy]

kleenex is a monopoly

[Dreams_Of_Cheese]

weekly MM youtube thread

[Tactical Nuke]

disney is getting to the point of holding a monopoly on media but get real wrt youtube

[Master Matthew²]

this is a completely meaningless point lol. the local gas station in a small town has a monopoly because people don't have a big need for there to be more than one. you don't get consuming is the same thing as voting

That is a horrible comparison. Youtube isnt some startup in the middle of nowhere, it's a titan with billions of users... and no alternative.

not using youtube is the same thing as not voting for it to continue
most people are voting for youtube
do you see the brown townogy

Because youtube is the only option.
Your argument is don't vote for youtube, vote for something else. But its also because people dont want anything else, nothing else exists. These can't both be true.
Because if people want to vote for something else, and nothing else exists because no one else wants it to exist, why am i or anyone else looking for alternatives in the first place?

there's no good alternative because people don't need one. most people are completely fine with youtube as proved by it's success. if you have a problem with that become an egalitarian

Like i said before, there's no alternative to vote for, so how can people show they have no need for an alternative if no alternatives can exist without being thrashed by youtube's gurth?

how are you going to lobby antitrust against youtube? "this website is too successful and is doing something i don't like plz break it up congress" do you know how dumb that sounds?

No, it's a monopoly that kills off its competitors by working in tandum with it's parent company to overwhelming silence videos that they consider to be "anti-advertiser friendly" including videos that advertise competing sites, and with google's search results overwhelmingly returning video results from youtube.

No one can vote for an alternative if none exists, and to say that none exist becaue "no one wants it" is handicapped. There are thousands upon thousands of discontent youtube channels that would love to support a youtube alternative. We know this because they've tried before, but anytime they come along they collapse because of the tactics previously stated.

[Red Spy]

That is a horrible comparison. Youtube isnt some startup in the middle of nowhere, it's a titan with billions of users... and no alternative.

except it was a startup in the middle of nowhere that became popular because people found it better than the other alternatives

Because youtube is the only option.

this is such loving bullstuff. there are alternatives, but they aren't popular

and to say that none exist becaue "no one wants it" is handicapped. There are thousands upon thousands of discontent youtube channels that would love to support a youtube alternative. We know this because they've tried before, but anytime they come along they collapse because of the tactics previously stated.

when i say "no one" i'm talking about the market. if the market doesn't have any need for a competitor a competitor won't be successful. this is basic economics

We know this because they've tried before, but anytime they come along they collapse because of the tactics previously stated.

noone goes to loving vidme or whatever because most people don't see a need to. there's no incentive. you can't forcibly relocate a market because master matthew on the blockland forums can't distinguish between coercive and non-coercive monopolies

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[DodgeViperAcr16]

except it was a startup in the middle of nowhere that became popular because people found it better than the other alternatives

True. However, it's now at the point where it can afford to treat it's content creators (the people who got YT to where it is now) poorly. Because the alternatives (undeniably) can't compete.

this is such loving bullstuff. there are alternatives, but they aren't popular

From a content creator perspective, YT is the only viable option. No other platform is big enough to give you the opportunity to make it big like YT.

when i say "no one" i'm talking about the market. if the market doesn't have any need for a competitor a competitor won't be successful. this is basic economics

The market (viewers) may not. But the creators certainly do. Just look at this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMe0w3_16_g (NSFW warning).

noone goes to loving vidme or whatever because most people don't see a need to. there's no incentive. you can't forcibly relocate a market because master matthew on the blockland forums can't distinguish between coercive and non-coercive monopolies

From a viewer's standpoint, you're right that there's no incentive. Don't know what it would take for people to gain interest in a different platform, but it would have to knock the socks off YT somehow.

[Conan]

its a non coercive monopoly, and you cant exactly regulate it cause its a monopoly purely on simple, easy, and free video hosting, monetization, and searching. there is no real way to regulate this business’ compensation practices - nobody is literally being physically hurt, and all the people affected are not employees and thus not subject to minimum wage laws or whatever.

[Renousim]

And Monopolies are ILLEGAL in the United States.

lol

[Fire Vine]

matthew can you just stop with these threads now

your making yourself look like an autisitc 12 yearold

[Capella]

Matthew you're getting towards Lord Tony quality posts just stop

[Red Spy]

No other platform is big enough to give you the opportunity to make it big like YT.

because no other platform is as good as doing what youtube does. youtube is the top platform for a reason and most people don't have a problem with it

From a viewer's standpoint, you're right that there's no incentive. Don't know what it would take for people to gain interest in a different platform, but it would have to knock the socks off YT somehow.

it would have to take youtube doing something seriously wrong to forget over a large majority of people who've been satistified with it thus far

[GreenBH³]

master matthew is really something else