It is destructive and corrosive. I agree. The problem is that for some magical reason the big platforms are never doing anything when genuine harm is being done to their users but they act all macho when a nothing burger happens. I don't mind rules much, but selective enforcement is annoying.
I didn't wanted to shit on the streamer guy, but I honestly doubt one, it is ethical to put up a dead person's name and face to gain internet points and two I seriously doubt the guy would have been mildly okay with his name being used to make online content creation even more controlled. I honestly feel writting a list about how nothing I have ever enjoyed has anything to do with my death if the case a satellite or something falls on me.
Also hate mobs are retarded. At least they should try going after like people who actually hurt others or something.
Yeah. Etika has become a posterboy for online harassment and like anything else is being used as a prop. However the sad truth is that the harassment was only ever part of the story. Dude was bipolar and I assume had other things going on in his life, it's sad that he killed himself but it's also inevitable with some of these mental diseases. Eskimos pushed mentally ill families off icebergs for a reason.
Youtube and the rest of the Valley are, imo, in a bad position. As I see it their platforms are too big which means its too easy for them to miss things. Hence they have rampant issues with graphic porn videos, murder livestreams, people selling other people as slaves, and on top of it they span the globe which makes a mess out of legal jurisdictions. They utterly fail to police the video portion of their businesses and that's not even without going into the propaganda that they put into the Anglosphere.
On top of that they have to deal with genuinely hateful people and harassment en masse. Remembering 4chan's crushing response towards Abe from Something Awful comes to mind. While that was enormously funny and deserved its also something that should not have happened under a well managed system, beginning with Abe going after a minor.
IMO they selectively enforce because their websites have simply become too big for them to control. They decided to moderate to favor lefties instead of righties but I'm not sure that they could fully enforce the rules on their users even if they wanted to. There's too many, it's too big, there's too much noise.
But they don't want to look weak so instead they try to come out with this placating bullshit where they'll target some of the big names to look like they're "doing something." Maybe it's better than admitting that they're paralyzed with doubt and that they don't know how to handle their own creation.
Breaking up these companies wouldn't just be good economically; it would be good for us and them. Limiting scope and power is better than having these unwieldy Leviathans that they can't actually control and that they're frantically hotfixing constantly.
