• Zombie-Mantis@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Nationalize YouTube.

    Specifically, nationalize the backend, Google can keep their website. And place it in the hands of something like the UN, rather than any specific country. I hardly trust Uncle Sam any more than Google’s investors. They’ve successfully monopolized video hosting, now turn it into a public resource.

    And open it up to the world, too. Google might get to keep their website, but everyone else can access the same database, too. May the best front end win.

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      10 months ago

      Curiously, that would mean a peer-tube network of server instances for which YouTube becomes a frontend.