The corporate overlords at Google are flexing their dystopian powers and removing all Danish music from YouTube, because the corporation refuses to come to a fair agreement on paying Nordic songwriters
Its conditions are: accept our pennies or be censored https://www.koda.dk/about-us/press-release-google-removes-all-danish-music-from-youtube
The corporate bloodsuckers at Google gave an organization representing Nordic songwriters an ultimatum demanding a nearly 70% reduction in payment for YouTube's use of their music – despite the fact that YouTube’s use of music has increased significantly since the last agreement
The repercussions of this are insane. Billions of people across the world use YouTube and Google. This unaccountable US mega-corporation (which works closely with the US gov't) is now boasting to the world that it can censor entire countries and languages
https://www.koda.dk/about-us/press-release-google-removes-all-danish-music-from-youtube
@benjaminnorton Denmark may be the first entire country to unilaterally move to peertube!
KODA can lead the way.
@gemlog
I'm seriously considering sending a rant to one of the Danish newspapers...
@benjaminnorton
@gamayun
Not many people even know about peertube, so that would be a good idea!
@benjaminnorton
@gamayun
TWo issues, two letters.
@benjaminnorton
@gemlog
I'm torn between extolling the virtues of decentralised and federated media, and just lambasting them for wasting decades fighting the fake threat of filesharing...
@benjaminnorton