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.