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Interesting.

Who gets to decide what commons we all should share?

Record labels and publishers?

Youtube, facebook and twitter are already exercising undue influence in terms of algo changes to suggested videos or auto-play videos.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/1/16072840/youtube-placing-l...

It's a marketplace of ideas. Let them compete. Google deciding what's good and what's not is not fair to the people who want to decide for themselves.



How is that undue influence? Did you arrive at youtube without any action on your part, was it auto playing when you logged in to your computer? Sounds like you dislike big media... just not enough to tune out.

tldrl; eat your own dogfood before telling others to do so.


Huh?

Youtube is big media? It's only in recent history that Youtube is exercising power to decide what stays and what doesn't, even if it meets the youtube content policy. This is political opinion enforced by youtube.

Given Google is a public company, taking one side or another in a political discussion may not be in their interest, it would be their right of first amendment to change the sites they own as they wish, but it dilutes the usefulness and trustworthiness of their product in the eyes of the customers, and the stock holders may not like it that way. The employees have fiduciary duty to not impose their political views on their product.

I am asking these companies as a fan of their platform that they keep it neutral.

I am not selling any dogfood. I am asking dogfood companies to sell it to all dog owners, don't discriminate if they have a poodle or a pit bull.




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