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Yeah, I don't need details and we don't need this.

The real issue is, the world loves and perhaps needs "universal video hosting," something like "the open web" but for video. Right now, "Youtube" is that.

And they're not a completely awful steward of it, but we need better. The for-profit model is not ideal.

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how can it be free and not for profit at large scale?

The same way the internet, email, bittorrent and even cryptocurrencies are?

Most people have to pay for their internet connection.

Gmail used to be ad-supported, but is now just a loss-leader for other Google products.

Bittorrent is built on top of people's paid-for internet connections and cannot scale to anything like the size of YouTube.

Cryptocurrencies have transaction fees.

"No one will ever write an encyclopedia for free"

Taxes.

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