It is bad that youtube became only video hosting platform and everyone is putting videos there, even government institutions. That leads to many annoyances, where critical information is blocked by myriad of ads. This should be illegal.
I have been trying to rely on Google less lately, and it made me realize just how important a platform YouTube is. There are reasonable alternatives to Google search, Gmail, etc. For YouTube, nothing.
I wish the government tech crackdowns would focus more on this or Microsoft's blatant abuse of their Windows lock-in instead of shit like forcing Apple to allow you to uninstall the camera app on your iPhone.
Even the App Store stuff, I do think the 30% cut and app linking stuff is unfair, but it's small potatoes of tech issues to me right now compared to the private organization that has essentially complete control over sharing information through video on the internet using that position to block people from sharing benign alternatives to watching videos on their platform.
I agree. Governments relying on private parties at such a degree is a disservice to the public they serve. As an alternative, or mirror, it's fine to upload, but to use Facebook, Xitter, YouTube as primary source for anything government related is pathetic. Govs should have their own IT running their own cloud and services, utilize FOSS entirely and work and contribute the software and data they produce.
