Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

@CaptainXtra  
The idea behind all that is to specifically target Google/YT, and be lax(er) on their (EU) alternatives.

@The Smiling Pony
 
I don’t think it’d be that simple to be honest. Google is by far one of the biggest players in the internet of all time. But the internet as we have it is still maybe twenty years old or so, maybe twenty five. So things may change. But Google also has been on a steady and even rise beyond the top spot which means YouTube as a subsidiary gets a great deal of support. Even Facebook as large as Zuckerburg’s empire is doesn’t touch the full extent of Google’s galactic imperium. The fall of YouTube may not come from dynamic market forces since it’s well positioned to be a market leader with all the capital backing it. The fall of YouTube may be a political thing, but given the largest market, China has been basically out of YouTube’s reach since day one or it’s had pretty limited access so far as the ChinaNet goes then I don’t think the Chinese really factor into its current status, save for as the potential for growth. But everyone speculates on how much more money they can make if they had unrestricted access to China and China is keenly aware of that.
 
There’s probably more potential for YouTube and Google in the developing world like Africa and the Middle East than China and Russia. And that’s impart the reason for YouTube’s stringent rules, it’s plying for access and domination of the African market which presents pretty much unique opportunities. Africa in general can skip the whole land line infrastructure that the west developed and spring straight into inexpensive wireless communication. African mobile phones are a big deal, and the diverse political landscape means there’s little to no continuous market regulation and protectionism than in Asia with China

@Mikey  

 
That’ll change when those people suddenly find themselves booted off the platform because they weren’t monetizing their videos (or weren’t making enough for YT).

@lonewolf  
I mean the general users. Not content creators.

HBO and John Oliver won against the lawsuit filed against them by Bob Murray. In the very same month that his coal company went into chapter 11.
 
 
Hah.

@Mikey  
And you think those users will hang around if the channels they like get deleted? They will follow them to whatever platform they go to.

@Zincy  
Actually, the suit got dropped after Murray appealed its dismissal to the West Virginia Supreme Court (probably because of the aforementioned bankruptcy and the impeachments of four justices Murray considered in his pocket).  
Still, the suit did cost $200,000 in legal fees and hiked up Last Week Tonight‘s anti-libel insurance premiums, leading Oliver to believe that the show actually got SLAPPed (as in Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation, in other words an intimidation tactics, especially considering West Virginia is one of the 20 states that doesn’t have legislation prohibiting such suits).  
So, to show he wouldn’t be deterred, Oliver doubled down on his attacks on Murray by digging up two recent accusations of sexual harrasment and misconduct made against him. “Eat shit, Bob”, indeed.

@Ereiam  
Do not forget that he did this in the form of a massive musical number,

@AaronMk
 
@The Smiling Pony
 
@Mikey  
I still hold the position that YouTube’s current state is more or less inevitable  
After all, the mass amounts of videos uploaded onto the site daily alone requires shit tons of money to maintain
 
Any YouTube alternatives will end up in YouTube’s current status, more or less
 
YouTube aren’t being malicious for no reason

@Commune  

 
Pretty much this. And even if YouTube were to be dissolved and if everyone were to move to an alternative inevitable market forces will just see them becoming the new YouTube. Fundamentally the entire conversation needs to involve things beyond YouTube itself.

And now, unsurprisingly, Sean Hannity is being implicated in the Ukraine scandal.
 
The Trump administration and Fox News is just one big rat king of corruption and collusion.

@Dustcan  
First Cohen, now this? Are there any Trump scandals he isn’t tied up in? Like, was he boning Stormy Daniels too?
 
Does explain why he’s such a sycophant, though. Tucker and Ingraham are horrible people, but they’re not afraid to call out the administration for… I dunno, not abolishing legal immigration or whatever.

@Dustcan  
Implicated how?

The end of YouTube has begun

Charlie Dent, long time Republican from Pennsylvania, released an opinion piece today.
 
He called the erosion of support in the suburbs an existential threat to the Republican party. He rather astutely points out that no matter how many votes Reps pick up in the rural areas, those can’t offset the heavily populated suburban and urban votes. So, unless every state in the Union pulls a Maine, if those losses in the suburbs aren’t corrected, Reps might start losing big on the national stage.
 
Suburban turnout is already putting some Senate seats in play that otherwise should be safely Republican.

@The Smiling Pony
 
Far as I can tell at least 2 people giving testimonies have name dropped Sean Hannity for slander and character assassination. So he’s apparently not directly involved with the scandal itself, but him constantly butting in is starting to bite him.

@Dustcan  
Oh yeah, he was named in testimonies as being part of the out-of-nowhere aspersions against the former ambassador. ie. told by Rudy to shitpost.

The EPA will no longer use scientific data based on individual health outcomes due to a recent policy change.
 
Republicans will literally put peoples lives at risk and degrade the health of our population for a dollar.
 
But you get to keep them guns right? That’s all you assholes care about anyway.

@Zincy  
Er, what exactly does this mean from a layman’s perspective?

@Latecomer
 
A lot of health studies use confidential individual health data. The policy change is that no study can be considered unless all aspects of its data are available for review.
 
The problem is, you legally can’t do that with individual health data. Which is why aspects of that data are expunged before publication.
 
So, studies like the recent air particulate study, which used medical records of cancer patients near coal fire plants, would no longer be acceptable for use as a policy review.
 
If a study contains confidential information, or has records scrubbed, they won’t use it. Which voids about half of the major studies.

@Zincy  
Republicans are the personification of “I’d sell you to the devil for a (monetarily valuable) corn chip.”

The quote, “Good times make weak men. Weak men make bad times. Bad times make strong men and strong men make good times” really bothers me on a philosophical level.
 
Firstly, it’s just presumptuous to assume that nobody can escape the cycle of suffering regardless of what they do. Secondly, the cycles of poverty and abuse is a thing. Being raised and treated like you’re shit doesn’t automatically make you a better person.

@Violet Rose in The Rain  
Yeah, I think that quote is fucking nonsense too.

Also, in my experience, those who tend to echo the same sentiment are arrogant gits.

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