Agreed. It most certainly should change, as it’s clear that youtube has a monopoly at this point… but that’s going to take some acknowledging that not everyone is going to be technologically savvy enough to install other programs that are open source. It seems to me that ease of use, accessibility, and security should be the three primary considerations for building alternatives that benefit the public.
[ETA] It strikes me that as we think about the internet moving forward, if we can get people to understand that the it is a public utility, that we should do a bit more than just build up publicly accessible broadband network, but maybe also think about a state sponsored, open source alternative to platforms like youtube? I’m not sure what, exactly that would look like, but that could be a thing…?
