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If you don't like YouTube's content policy then use something else; as many other people are now doing.

Vimeo, DailyMotion, PeerTube, BitChute and so on and so forth.

I'd hazard to say that this marketplace of providers and their variety of policies is quite American.

Because any of those are even close to competitors...there are 2 billion youtube users (80% of internet users).

Posting this reply here since the site says Im posting too fast at a lightspeed rate of 3 comments for the day:

I just dont agree with you that there is a "healthy marketplace" by all metrics youtube has a monopoly on video streaming. For instance Vimeo has 1.5 million subscribers...compared to 2000 million for youtube. Thats .075%.

You can upload videos to them and share them freely. Doing so draws views away from YouTube that they may have otherwise enjoyed, and may expose more users to the competition.

Demanding that YouTube be regulated to be forced to carry content when a healthy marketplace of competitors exists is hilariously un-American.

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