/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

>>3202231
>Why are the days gone, how did people lose out the ability to assess worth to populism?
Because of shit sites like Reddit, twitter, and facebook devoured the internet through sheer financial force of will and implemented systems meant to crush any opposing thought.

>>1370947
Problem with competing platforms is always the same problem we have when discussing competing alternatives to Youtube: American tech companies, specifically Silicon Valley, have a trust occurring where they protect one another if a foreign company attempts to enter the market.
It's not for lack of foreign companies trying, either. They intentionally block out and muscle any and all payment processors, social media sites, news organizations, and services using their iron grip on banks, telecom infrastructure, internet infrastructure, and reliance on US based services. This even extends to other American-based platforms outside of Silicon valley. Let's not forget the attempts to make alternatives to Twitch and Netflix which were shut down by being denied basic infrastructure neutrality.

They're allowed to do this because the people who should be regulating them look the other way in return for them retaining their complete domination of the English-language internet.