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Hello lovely Patrons! Here's a video about the overlap between tech and politics, examining some problems I have with YouTube and Google more generally!It's the support of people like you that helps me make videos like this: if I was beholden to advertising dollars I might be a bit more nervous about releasing it! So thank you!

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Problems with YouTube & the Internet Creators Guild: Technology & Politics

The Internet Creators Guild, invented by Hank Green and Laura Chernikoff, looks cool, but it symbolises some problems that I have with YouTube, "the YouTube community," and Silicon Valley more generally - it's a kind of bourgeois technocratic liberalism Subscribe!

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conferencereport

I don't know if you're a member of ICG yet but I started a conversation over there back in early November last year about YT content creators setting up a worker's cooperative, something in the model of the Chicago Podcast Cooperative <a href="http://chicagopodcastcoop.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://chicagopodcastcoop.com/</a> The thread began in #Money and then moved across to #macronomics if you're interested in taking a look.