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		drdeca 33 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has... No, but they do pay the costs of hosting/serving the videos, which I thought was the relevant analogy to the service being used when driving on a road and there being billboards next to the road.

Dylan16807 33 days ago [–]

Is the department of transportation owned those billboards and used them to fund the roads I would feel 0% more obligated to look at them.

drdeca 31 days ago | [–]

Sure, but it would make the analogy valid.

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