This is how all tech companies got funded, and still do. YouTube doesn't even have much of a network effect, it's just that nobody made anything comparable that was actually better.
> This is how all tech companies got funded, and still do
This isn't really germane to what's right. We all know how the surveillance industry operates - subsidizing investment, lock in, and then enshittification. And sure, it seems to work for it in a pragmatic sense. But that doesn't mean we should find virtue in rewarding it, which was what the original argument is about.
> YouTube doesn't even have much of a network effect
I'm not interested in arguing with goalposts being moved, especially by ignorance.
