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Jan 16, 2009, 12:08PM

Obama 2.1

Just because YouTube is the most traficked video-sharing site doesn't mean it deserves unfettered government approval.

How about Bit Torrent?:

Let's explore a few reasons why Obama should ditch his YouTube plans and switch to BitTorrent:

—As demonstrated by the recent flood of constituent complaints to the House and Senate during the banking bailout, the .gov network simply can't deal with lots of traffic.

—It's not the government's role to pick industry winners and losers. Sure, YouTube has millions of users, but I'm sure that the other Silicon Valley-based user-submitted video sites would love to draw the eyeballs of Obama's podcast subscribers. What about Veoh, Vuze, Hulu, Revver, and Blip.tv?

—While it's awfully nice of Google-YouTube to volunteer the hundreds of gigabytes of bandwidth necessary to host Obama's video content, is it really appropriate to further expand the link between Google and the Obama Whitehouse?

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