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IDT that youtube should get credit for creating "The Medium." Online, shareable videos were always going to exist, somewhere. They just had the deep pockets to finance the hosting of youtube and win a monopoly over it.

That's not to diminish the medium, or it's benefits over traditional, one-2-many mass media. It's also not meant to diminish youtube's role, before or after google acquired them. Certainly not to diminish creators. I just think it's worth thinking about where it all came from. Is it a quasi-inevitability brought on by technology

I think a lot of modern tech giants occupy spaces where it's hard to tell if they are building a thing, or squatting.




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