As an avid internet user, we need to put pressure on standards creating bodies related to posting video. We have drifted away from what made the internet great which is this separation between the domain name such as bgol.us which can never be banned by anybody. As long as the board operator finds a web hosting company, they can be back online if something was to happen.
Stormfront, a white nationalist website was taken down after the mayhem in Charlottesville. It simply found a new webhosting company and it is using the same domain name that can never be taken away.
Back in the day, Adobe proprietary and commercial standard ruled the internet and pretty much controlled how videos were displayed on websites and other content. Steve Jobs banned its use and promoted his app store and open standards to watch videos on mobile devices. Today, Google is the Adobe Flash of its era with Youtube.
When we use services like Youtube and Tumblr, we lose our ability to control our presence online. We should demand a domain link to our content that can never be taken away from us by any entity except the federal government. Google can decide not to distribute our content, but we can go to 20 other companies to host our video files and users do not have to search for our content. After the Alex Jones debacle, many people have come up strategies such as fighting a losing battle against these companies in court or regulating these companies as a public utility.
We have a web browser, but we need video browsers that emulate what Youtube does with its content. This can be easily integrated into many SmartTV.
Multiple search engine can direct us to content, we can subscribe to a domain link and the posting of videos using some sort of open standards.
Google has done this on purpose to gain control of content and it is anti-competitive, other companies are blocked from offering a competing service such as Microsoft or Apple. Google could offer a domain link to the content that can not be banned or blocked in anyway. A person can go to another company to distribute its video content to users that will use various video browsers.
Alex Jones has his website, but many people are watching Youtube content on SmartTV which he will lose. Apple needs to ban Youtube on its phone and go towards an open standard with a video/audio browser.
