YouTube CEO calls EU’s proposed copyright regulation financially impossible
I watch a decent amount of YouTube, but if it went away, I don’t think that it would be a net loss to humanity given what YT shows to children [0], and how YT radicalizes viewers [1].  It’s actually Patreon that pays my favorite creators, not YT, so they could protentially distribute videos via any other site. A new site for discovery would likely rise up, if Patreon didn’t do that themselves.<p>This is the entire platform vs publisher argument that tech companies have been hiding under for years. No one is responsible for content, and look what that’s gotten us. I would shed no tears if YT ended operation in the EU, where I live.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.wired.co.uk/article/youtube-for-kids-videos-problems-algorithm-recommend" rel="nofollow">https://www.wired.co.uk/article/youtube-for-kids-videos-prob...</a><p>[1] <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/youtube-politics-radical.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/youtube-po...</a><p><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/03/youtube-extremism-and-the-long-tail/555350/" rel="nofollow">https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/03/youtube...</a><p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-youtubes-far-right-radicalization-factory" rel="nofollow">https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-youtubes-far-right-radi...</a>