With days to go until the #CopyrightDirective vote, #Article13's father admits it requires filters and says he’s OK with killing Youtube

DeclanMcManus · March 14, 2019, 3:46pm

If YouTube isn’t profitable for Google, then why do they bother running it? Or, rather, if YouTube is considered so important it has to be kept afloat with Google’s Money, then can’t Google afford that?

And if human moderation would destroy YouTube’s business model, then that is their problem as a publisher – and their responsibility.

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With days to go until the #CopyrightDirective vote, #Article13's father admits it requires filters and says he’s OK with killing Youtube

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