YouTube CEO says EU regulation will be bad for creators

Sure, maybe! YouTube also offers royalty-free music, but it doesn't always go well. I made a few videos in the past, and bought music from iStockPhoto.

The problem of being sued to shut down negative reviews remains, though.

> That's orthogonal to what the Article 13 really says.

It's not orthogonal at all. What the CEO said lines up precisely with what Article 13 says.

> If anything, it will "force" the platforms to prioritize original content over remakes.

Your wording is very peculiar. "remakes" can be original content. Like the remake of "A Star is Born" is original content. Youtube's issue isn't about "remakes". It's about critism and fair use.

The only thing EU regulation is meant to due is to stifle discussion, criticism, artist creation, etc in favor of multinational corporations and of course the political elite.

It's not about "original content", but the ability of the media conglomerates to suppress smaller creators and take their money. It's about using law, money and regulation to bully and intimidate and silence.

Youtube already does this to a limited degree as media companies have subsidiaries that pretty much mark everything as a copyright violation and force independent creators to prove their innocence. When in a fair society, things should be reversed. Innocence should be assumed and the guilt has to be proven.

So Youtube does have a CEO, after all! /s

It irritates me that no article I have ever read discussing Youtube's failings mentions anything about the people in charge. There have been several articles over the past couple years pointing out Youtube's ill effects on the world. In each case, the author makes it seem that Youtube is just a force of nature, with nobody at the wheel.

Meanwhile, the past week I've read two article that reference Susan Wojcicki, and neither are critical.

At least when Zuckerberg encounters the public, there's a chance someone might give him a piece of their mind over Facebook's failings. I doubt Wojcicki ever hears feedback from the public... nobody knows who she is.

This is rich. Every YouTube creator that I follow has at least one video whose purpose is to rail against YouTube's mystifying demonetization policies, their trigger-happy DMCA policies that aggressively favor major copyright holders, and their opaque and useless litigation process. Here's one for reference: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bGZ_a6gL0f4 . Listening to the CEO of YouTube cry "but think of the content creators!" is about as transparently self-serving as a US politician crying "but think of the children!"