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    1 day ago

    Connecting to it isn’t hard, But they won’t be able to pay people, so the US content will just get starved out.

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      24 hours ago

      I’m not actually seeing anything preventing creators from being paid, they’re just going to lose the majority of their u.s. audience on the platform.

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        21 hours ago

        They won’t freeze the assets until the company is officially barred from working here. They won’t just fuck around and blindly try to figure out what they’re doing, once they command Apple and Google to remove it from the App store, they’ll start freezing assets and stopping financial transactions. It’s just the nature of the beast.

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      1 day ago

      We have a similar situation on Youtube - the site itself doesn’t pay the creators anymore. But everyone who had Youtube as a profession is still there. Some depend on a Patreon-like service, some on their own sponsorships.

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        1 day ago

        Youtube has backed down a lot, but they’re still paying their golden geese.

        Spiffing britt has let a new recent video payouts out of the bag, a good multi-million hit view video still nets him around 20k.