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The problem is that we have tried this, there was a period of time when during the Great depression, in order to keep the Arts alive, the Government tried hosting stages for performers to enact plays on.
This did not work because the government kept trying to encourage that the plays promote a piece of propaganda that made the US look good or would punish plays that were accused of showing anti-American sentiment.
Imagine if government did Run YouTube, what would happen the second a Donald Trump got in office?
Suddenly only the alt right are allowed to make videos.
What we need is something like fediverse, but for online videos. Something where the host is an entirely neutral party that does not moderate the videos unless required to in order to comply with law enforcement or in instances where action against the video is obvious, such as a call to arms or if someone starts hosting Kiddie porn
That's Peertube right? I haven't used it.
That's pretty much the problem with every federated service right now π¬
Even if it was used it's unlikely Peertube could compete with YouTube due to the nature of storage space required for HD videos.