There are at least four separate questions to address here. One, if videos should be editable. Two, if edited videos should be allowed to re-use the old URL. T

There are at least four separate questions to address here. One, if videos should be editable. Two, if edited videos should be allowed to re-use the old URL. Three, if users should be able to tell an edit has been made. Four, what level of granular detail YouTube should provide about the editing process, up to and including if the previous version(s) of the video should be made available by YouTube. Many comments here arguing for point 1, when TFA is not objecting to point 1. Obviously YouTube should allow editing videos. I think point 2 is also a crucial feature, because of the widespread sharing of video links, the penalty for editing would be too high if it was equivalent to posting anew. I would hesitate to call it “editing” even, if the URL changed. I think that point 3–at the least indicating a last modified date—would be uncontroversial. I think hosting the previous versions contravenes the intent of the publisher and is not the right choice, bad or wrong information need not be hosted by the platform indefinitely. That’s not to say someone somewhere might not archive it, but that doesn’t mean YouTube should.