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IdleSheep@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

It’s a shame that this law still doesn’t apply to YouTube

If Germany is anything like Canada and other countries, applying public broadcast laws to YouTube would be a monkey’s paw deal. Sure you might get tighter control over advertising, but youtube would also be forced to do things like show you x% of content made in your country/language, resulting in state mandated control of the content you see online and potentially limiting/warping international audiences for content creators.

Now if they made a law specifically for youtube and other online video platforms that dealt with advertising in that context, that would be a different story.

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sabin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Sure you might get tighter control over advertising, but youtube would also be forced to do things like show you x% of content made in your country/language, resulting in state mandated control of the content you see online and potentially limiting/warping international audiences for content creators, and potentially other ramifications I’m not considering.

This is false. You can create laws restricting advertising without creating other laws forcing companies to display domestic content. The point about the Canadian government wanting YouTube to promote domestic content is irrelevant.

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- IdleSheep@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Way to miss my entire point.
  
  In this case, a law wouldn’t be created, youtube would just be integrated in already existing laws for public TV broadcasts, which is the wrong way to go about it because obviously youtube doesn’t work like TV.
  
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