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<blockquote data-quote="demolition" data-source="post: 1175965" data-attributes="member: 5657">RE: Google Disables Sargon of Akkad's Account Without Warning.A big part of the problem is advertising. Advertising on the internet is literally controlled by Google and Facebook, who have eaten any competitors and are relentless in destroying any potential threats to their duopoly. Since almost all internet platforms are ad supported, this gives them power of the purse over everything you see. YouTube is already a money-losing enterprise (although, like Hollywood, I don't trust reports of precisely how unprofitable it is. YouTube likely earns a small profit for Google even if this is shuffled in to Google/Alphabet's other properties).Regardless, how will another video-sharing site succeed? GAFA (Google/Amazon/Facebook/Apple) can simply pull the ads that power anything they don't like and kill off its profitability.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="demolition, post: 1175965, member: 5657"] [b]RE: Google Disables Sargon of Akkad's Account Without Warning.[/b] A big part of the problem is advertising. Advertising on the internet is literally controlled by Google and Facebook, who have eaten any competitors and are relentless in destroying any potential threats to their duopoly. Since almost all internet platforms are ad supported, this gives them power of the purse over everything you see. YouTube is already a money-losing enterprise (although, like Hollywood, I don't trust reports of precisely how unprofitable it is. YouTube likely earns a small profit for Google even if this is shuffled in to Google/Alphabet's other properties). Regardless, how will another video-sharing site succeed? GAFA (Google/Amazon/Facebook/Apple) can simply pull the ads that power anything they don't like and kill off its profitability. [/QUOTE]

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