> Okay, and what about the thousands of people who legitimately need help? Do you really think it's acceptable that people have their content stolen or falsely

> Okay, and what about the thousands of people who legitimately need help? Do you really think it's acceptable that people have their content stolen or falsely flagged, or their channel demonetised or banned without recourse? Yes. Or rather, these particular commercial relationships shouldn't exist in the first place — they're fundamentally untenable. As I say in my sibling comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32071124#32073569 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32071124#32073569), Google shouldn't be attempting to work with independent creators at all; there's no way to make it work. It shouldn't allow people to directly post on YouTube. (At least, monetized. They could still support it for hobbyists who aren't out to make money and are explicitly opting out of any support.) Instead, YouTube should be directly engaging — and encouraging the consolidation of — MCNs, into a small collection of reseller-partners; a collection small-enough that YouTube can scalably listen to those partners' complaints. Where those partners then act as collectors and filters for complaints, only raising to YouTube's attention the problems that actually seem to be YouTube problems rather than PEBKAC problems. Am I reinventing mainstream media? Yes. Because mainstream media scales.