If one day YT sets a “minimum requirements” page on their website to access their content, they’ve immediately ceded market share to the next upstart. Imagine if they broke viewing for all of the countless cheap (and e-waste) phones, tablets, low end IOT devices, “smart TVs”, and so on because they place a requirement that the device cannot meet. Those users will not throw away their hardware - they’ll migrate to the first available alternative way to watch content.

This all incorrectly assumes that there exists any viable competition to switch to. YouTube ran at a net loss for over a decade to get the reach they currently have, only because Google was one of the very few companies who could feasibly afford to do so. Nobody else with the resources to compete with YouTube is willing to compete with YouTube, because of the massive cost required to get even a fraction of that user base, let alone a critical mass.

And most of the content people access YouTube for is only found on YouTube, so those hypothetical users aren’t going to switch to a new platform, they’re going to either just flat-out stop watching or will replace their devices.

Those are fantastic solutions if you don’t want anybody to watch your content.

You said it on live TV, jackass. We all saw and heard you.

made mostly of foam and wire, but painted bronze

How fitting.

Jesus fucking Christ, sports shouldn’t be a political issue at all. It’s literally a fucking game, the government and politicians shouldn’t be involved in this shit at all in the first place. We should care about as much about Kamala’s opinion on the WNBA as we do about her opinion on Minecraft. The leagues are privately-owned companies, let them run their fucking company how they want (which up to this point, has been trans-inclusive).

They confused it for Target?

The courts stopped him, at least temporarily, TBH I’ve lost track of that one.

I’ve got some bad news for you.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-trump-ftc/

The high court said in a brief order that it will also allow Mr. Trump to fire Rebecca Kelly Slaughter from her position at the FTC while it considers the case. It will hear arguments in its December session, and its stay will remain in place until it issues a decision. Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented from the majority’s decision to allow Slaughter’s removal.

Don’t reactivate Disney+ if you cancelled it. This needs to be a lasting blemish on their record.

Those votes don’t affect the score on the original instance, though. Other federated instances will still be able to calculate a truer score in that scenario.

Okay.

Admins should only be looking at who downvotes posts when there is some sort of history of vote-abuse happening. Somebody voicing their opinion with their votes is a perfectly valid use of the upvote/downvote system.

PTB

You may notice that OP never provided a link to the instance. It’s not an advertisement, it’s a warning.

YouTube Premium family plan is worth it for me. Sure, I can set up a PiHole and block ads. But that’s only viable on networks I control; it won’t work if I’m out of the house unless I want to set up a separate tunnel through my home network at all times. And I also don’t have the time or inclination to set up and maintain a PiHole for each of my family members.

Because ultimately the name doesn’t really matter, it’s just another ego flex like renaming the Gulf of Mexico. Whether they’re the DoD or the DoW, they’re doing the same bullshit.

Also, DoW is the original name for that department, anyway. And honestly, it’s more fitting given their history.

The ‘press’ does not run the Pentagon – the people do.

So if you revoke their press passes… they’re no longer the press… and they’re just the people…

No, the benefit to changing their path is that it can still get much worse for them if they don’t. As long as the company is run by people with anything left to lose, it can get worse.

Disney is a maaaaaaaaaassive fucking corporation with a platform that can reach many many people.

Exactly why they don’t need positive reinforcement, IMO. How do you reward one who already has everything?

If you cancelled your Disney+ over this, don’t reactivate it just because they bring Kimmel back. They can’t get away with just a slap on the wrist, they need to lose a whole hand. This needs to hurt them for more than just a week; this needs to be a permanent, scarred gash on their history otherwise we’ll be right back here again next week.

Well how else would you answer a call?

WAKE ME UP INSIDE