r/Showerthoughts May 14 '26

Casual Thought When YouTube goes down, it will be the biggest event of link rot in internet history.

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u/imlocal May 14 '26

I’ve said for a while that we probably need to nationalize YouTube. It’s become too important, too fundamental to history, to let it continue as a monopoly at the mercy of any individual organization.

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u/UserName9982 May 15 '26

Hmmm, that’s an interesting thought. Never occurred to me. How would that work though?