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With the pandemic, I moved us from being just a pycon sponsor to sponsoring the psf directly (https://www.python.org/psf/sponsorship/sponsors/), though without a senior MD championing these types of initiatives it's always up to lower level employees being vocal and committed enough to push.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/world-facing-g...
There are also numerous roles in industry which do research (even Oracle has a research lab!). This is probably the easier route, especially if you're not as keen on teaching, and more and more companies are open to people doing speculative work and publishing papers (note that i'm making the assumption we're generally talking about software development, ML, hardware development, etc).
>Any webserver will be happy to serve up .mp4 content. There are free players (JWPlayer for instance) and you are entirely free to serve up whatever you want from your own hosted service.
This echos the classic dropbox comment, "you can just do it yourself". A layperson isn't going to.
>That capricious decision can be appealed, you can take Youtube to court if you feel they have wronged you.
You can sue whoever you want, but you will lose due to lack of resources.
> Because it never was theirs in the first place
As the facebook controversies have show, people have a remarkably bad time using common sense and making rational decisions on the internet, so while you are totally correct, its silly to assume people think that way.
2. If a client wants to buy/sell snapchat, the investment bank is still going to make broker fees on the transactions.