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    It’s called state communism and america would burn to the ground before it happens

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        It’s not communism but it’s antithetical to the American spirit of free market capitalism. They prefer their growth unchecked and their corporations unregulated, just as the founding fathers intended.

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        What if it was something you were hosting and someone told you what to do? Kind of three antithesis of Lemmy, really.

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          The difference is the barrier to entry and the size. Realistically, it is very hard to make a YouTube competitor given how high the server costs are and how sticky the platform is.

          As a platform (or a company), gets bigger and bigger, it has more influence on society and it’s private status becomes more and more detrimental to the good of humanity.

          In the example you said, what I host would not have a huge impact on society, hence I would not need to be as responsible for what I do.

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            If the breaking point is size, then what qualifies the size? What if you hosted your stuff at a medium scale in your house as a hobby? Does this mean that an anonymous person can demand that you host certain content? At what point is your infra not yours anymore?

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              If the breaking point is size, then what qualifies the size?

              When it’s a monopoly (maybe even before that, but definitely when it’s a monopoly).

              Please see standard oil and how anti trust suites broke that up.

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                You host stuff in your house, and create a monopoly. Does a guy in a suit show up at your door to claim it? How does running a service as a hobby compare to oil?

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                  How can I have a monopoly by hosting something in my house? If you create a forum, you don’t have a monopoly over all forums, you have control over your own forum.

                  Your confusing one product with an entire sector/industry.

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                    Why can’t you have a monopoly with something you host yourself? What product am I confusing with another sector?