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

I don't even know what coppa is

This poofta is trying to appropriate my culture 😤

nonetheless, the laws are still on the books

Yeah, and big money keeps them there, none of those copyright laws are fair and just

coppa is the law that requires one to seperate adult from child content

That doesn't sound so bad

but that distinction is so damn blured anymore

any 'cartoon' is classifed 'child material'

Erm

yeah, you see the issue

Who the fuck made that distinction?

It doesn't have to make sense, it only has to pass in congress

it was the original distinction

So beserk is for young children? lmao