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See, this is technically true. But that is not how (say) YouTube presents itself.
They market professional creators, and algorithmically prioritize them. They set up extensive systems for them. They divert away from external linking, and create systems to explicity keep people withing their ad ecosystem. To regulators, YouTube argues that it's still that same site to post "creative videos" to, like the cat video site it was a long time ago. Yet in the same breath, they turn around and do everything they can to crowd out professional journalism and media, to promite it across services, even viewing it as their "attention competition."
They're having their cake and eating it.
Discord's the same. They depict it as private chat for gamers and friend groups, when it's really host to larger interest communities, and eating similar sources alive.
Hence I disagree.
YouTube is setting the expectation for creators to make money, while arguing exactly what you're arguing in court. And this:
This is true! Yet YouTube wouldn't be caught dead saying it, as it would cost them attention.
And that's not okay.