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YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet
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This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Let's say I run my own hypothetical, federated, userpeer-to-peer and opt-in server CDN function-platform, also known as PeerTube...
I'd only accept those video uploads/uploaders I consider quality content.
I'd love to host many content creator's videos. From the goodness of my heart, for free, as a gift to you all. But certainly not all videos, and nowhere near 200 TB/h. But I can afford to host many TB's without it impacting my private economy.
That video of some idiot eating tidepods or whatever the current thing is? They could find somebody else that will host. Or if unable, host their own videos. Now we're both happy.
Oh no! Censorship /s
No need to be sarcastic, in my kingdom I'll be absolute ruler and "censor" and suppress others as I see fit.
And everybody else is free to do the same and tell me to feck off.
I think censorship in the Fediverse works because you can always find a host which aligns with your ideology. Bad ideas automatically die out if the overwhelming majority of people stop spreading it, not because a giant megacorp decides it's not a good message to show to their shareholders.
But good ideas can be hidden from users if an admin bans instances or remote users. It's a new type of censorship.