and YT is powered by Adsense, also google

Adsense is EVERYWHERE

blogs, social media, websites,... everywhere

if yt unintetionally associates an ad with a controversial video, google risks that company pulling out of adsense

they'd rather kill YT completely and cut their loses

I get the business case defense YouTube could make

What pisses me off is for years these fuckers did nothing

Not a damn thing

and by rights, they and others suchas Discord have been blatently ignoring the laws in regards to mining the data of minors

it's even in their TOS

To prepare for getting fucked

why would they?

they were raking in money with little to no effort doing something they know was sketchy

I would like to see youtube completely collapse

To survive
To foster and encourage free speech in some other community

and they also knew if the FTC came after them, they could just blame creators

very old dirty business trick

Jesus. Any reason at all.
To SPITE Google is a good enough reason

YT IS GOOGLE

same company, it's just a subsidary

You keep saying that as if nobody is aware of that.

so.. who would 'spite google'?

Youtube created an automatic system of "copyright" claims that allow anyone to accuse anyone else of copyright infringement and STEAL THEIR ADVERT REVENUE and as far as I know, that system is STILL in place, it just doesn't make the news

CYA

they don't really have any way else to do it

if they really followed the law, the payoff wouldn't be worth it

Then the law is the problem

hence the platform/publisher model that drives the internet

if you are libel for users, then you can't afford the potential liability

Someone has made a law that is so stupid it would compeltely destroy digital platforms if enforced fairly

and u have no way of knowing what creators will be popular

That;'s idiotic

no, you have it backwards

the platforms came ABOUT by BREAKING the existing laws as a rule

The law is the first problem there and there are already ways around that. The first and most obvious way around these laws is not using YouTube for starters.

which laws?

as long as no one complained, the gov didn't get involved

Copyright and COPPA

lol

Copyright laws are garbage

perhaps, i kinda agree