I get that, and I've been in the camp warning people of that many times, but I think it's an interesting situation where so much essentially public data is on a private platform. What happens if YouTube shuts down tomorrow? A, would society accept it and B, would they be bailed out? For the latter, what happens next?
Honestly, I would not be against one of these massive services failing spectacularly to 'teach us a lesson' about trusting all our important things to private corps.
>What happens if YouTube shuts down tomorrow? A, would society accept it and B, would they be bailed out?
I see no reason to "bail out" youtube if they close shop due to insolvency.
>I would not be against one of these massive services failing spectacularly to 'teach us a lesson' about trusting all our important things to private corps.
"important things"? You mean all the troll comments and misinformation being spread there? Or the very few videos that are actually interesting or useful? If the content creators don't still have those videos backed up somewhere other than youtube, then that's their failure. If they want those videos streamed on another platform, they are free to upload their content anywhere they want to, or even host it themselves.
