So, the issue here is this. You, a small time youtube person, post a stupid video that goes sort of viral for the reasons those things happen. Then, some monster massive channel gets on it, makes fun of you and their 4-6 million followers start to dogpile you. Say the Fine Brothers get their army of tards into the game. Who do you ban? A channel with a million subs that generates ad revenue? The idiots who say "lol you suck" in your video comments? Is this going to put a cap on response videos and reply videos? Are conservatives who do nothing but take pot shots at liberals going to be banned? What about the other way? What about people who debunk shitty KIckstarter Projects? What about people who criticize religions like Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, sacred beliefs that governments are willing to aggressively fight to protect? Say some protest vid goes viral because a protestor picks a fight and makes an ass out of themselves. Then 4chan's people figure out who the people in the video are and now start posting the other vids on those channels in order to mock and laugh at people 'for teh lulz.' All of these events happened over the last year. And they still cannot fix fair use DMCA and Copyright abuses (honestly I don't think they care to). Youtube comments are already cancer, how can you fix that steaming pile of gibberish? People are already using DMCA claims to dox people on Youtube. Is Youtube going to help fight the malevolent people who are trying to out critics for real life harassment? Worse. Trolls will now start bragging about how many bans they get, develop lists of soft targets to annoy and harass and in general make the whole video environment worse. More blocked comments, more disabled ratings and more screaming into the void instead of talking with other people. To be very brutal here, if you go onto the internet you are going to cross someone who is going to shit on you, your beliefs, they way you look, they way you present yourself. The only way I was able to deal with bullies is to fight back and not be a doormat. This is not something that I think can be fixed with technology or law. It gets fixed by teaching kids to stand up for themselves and to be able to fight back, with wit, sarcasm, mockery and biting jabs. Bullies pick soft targets... funny how nobody bullies the weightlifting and MMA channels, right? And if I could fix this with the snap of my fingers or the passage of law or policy, I'd run for god.Revealing someone’s personal information
Will this change youtube? For the better or worse?
The Fine Bros? After the PR disaster that lost them 2 million subs and had pretty much all of youtube unified in hating on them and had them backpedaling on trying to trademark the word REACT? I'm surprised they still have an army. That's a huge ball of wax with a lot of complex issues. But from the videos I've seen, they're at least making an attempt to make the monetization more fair. I saw a video saying that the money in dispute is put into escrow until the claim is settled. In the past, the money would go to the person making the claim. I don't know much about youtube, but that sounds more fair to me. I disagree with much of this. Wit and sarcasm can only get you so far on a platform where the deck is stacked against you. For instance, announcing that you're an atheist on a Christian forum will get people picking you as the target. And vice versa. The policies and rules will determine whether it's possible to post there at all, but there's no question that you will get picked on. If the owners decide to mock you when you're in the minority, wit and sarcasm might get you a pass for a while, but it's always at their pleasure. I knew an atheist who was successful at a Christian forum and vice versa, but they also had good relationships with the owners. If that changed at any moment, the tables would turn. In lesser degrees, every platform is like that. There are dominant views and minority views. People holding minority views will always get picked on. The people with the dominant views are the ones doing the mocking. You can't really mock from the minority because no one is laughing with you. Every group requires some sense of allegiance around the core group values or shared interests. If you're on the other side of that, you'll be mocked. Platform owners create the environment and culture that includes or excludes the type of people they want to see there. It can be in the form of rules but more often it's in the form of who they choose to mock and exclude. Policies shape the culture, which in turn shapes the behavior of the participants.Say the Fine Brothers get their army of tards into the game.
And they still cannot fix fair use DMCA and Copyright abuses
This is not something that I think can be fixed with technology or law. It gets fixed by teaching kids to stand up for themselves and to be able to fight back, with wit, sarcasm, mockery and biting jabs. Bullies pick soft targets... funny how nobody bullies the weightlifting and MMA channels, right? And if I could fix this with the snap of my fingers or the passage of law or policy, I'd run for god.
Life is like that. The reason things like the First Amendment exist is to protect the minority and the offensive from the majority. Youtube has more income than Hollywood, and could, if it wanted to, work to fix the DMCA. Instead, a ton of RIAA people are now trying to make a bad system worse. It makes me sad that Trent Reznor is on that list, but it is what it is. Have you seen this, btw? In lesser degrees, every platform is like that. There are dominant views and minority views. People holding minority views will always get picked on. The people with the dominant views are the ones doing the mocking. You can't really mock from the minority because no one is laughing with you. Every group requires some sense of allegiance around the core group values or shared interests. If you're on the other side of that, you'll be mocked.