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If the entire world gets to participate, wouldn't that make everyone a rent seeker?

See that's the point. Having a trusted party is a better solution.

> capitalism working as intended.

Needlessly destroying the planet and making it more expensive for me to drown the inevitability of impending doom by playing AAA video games.

Well ain't that just swell.

Or maybe our western liberal democratic capitalist societies have long degenerated to a point of complete and utter directionlessnes.

Your conspiracy would have the west fucking themselves over.

How about this: a plutocratic elite has accumulated enough capital to be no longer accountable to anyone as almost each and every actor with power in society has been bought out - they don't care about you being able to afford a GPU for your world changing machine learning project for a fair price. They care about themselves and themselves only, and doing so are molding the rest of society into the same myopic egotistical form.

The recent pandemic and the sheer amount of people not willing or able to comply with simplest (masking, vaccinating, etc.) mitigation measures due to what boils down to a kind of malicious dumbness or idiocy driven by mass and social media reminds me of the kind of spirit that allowed the nazi party to come to power in Germany.

This doesn't bode well for ongoing crises like the destruction of the ecological support system of our species' home planet driven by greed and an endless appetite for convenience.

Yes, nvidia and AMD should collude to destroy crypto from a market risk reduction perspective.

They have been moving towards holocaust denial since 2015, actually.

No it hasn't. It would perhaps have if the strategy of history falsification that the far right kept trying since about the 60ies would have worked. These laws were one factor in making sure no such history falsification took place on a broad scale.

That's for Canadian YouTube to decide in accordance with Canadian laws.

Break up YouTube into multiple companies, each only allowed to operate in one country. Then break up YouTube US into at least 5 more companies.

Monopolies are bad, mmmkay?

It's high time facebook, YouTube and Google get broken up like the Bell Corporation was (maybe even avoid some mistakes that were made with that company).

Regarding 3.: I think it will radicalize some but it will also stop the misinformation of many more people. Overall I think it will lead to lives saved.

I think the problem is less what YouTube is doing here and more that YouTube has this kind of power. If every country had 10 video Websites like Youtube that each had a 10th of the users from that country, and maybe some international users, then one portal taking a total ban-all hard-ass stance on misinformation wouldn't be a big deal.

tldr: Monopolies bad, YouTube bad, facebook bad.

Technologically possible, corporocratically impossible - it would lose the company money.