What does “of any kind” mean? Who becomes the arbiter of what’s offensive? The current topic is offensive in my opinion, so I agree there. But bad reviews may be offensive to AT&T. Where does that rabbit hole end?
I also agree that one step could be to eliminate publicly viewable comments on YouTube. Allow people to message the creator, and they can either look at it or not, but that’s it. YouTube comments are historically a cesspit of fuckery anyhow. No huge loss in many cases. If a content creator wanted to engage in discussions with fans, they could always set up their own free forum outside of YouTube and link to it from the video. And they could then police their own discussions.
But that is only one tiny piece of this shit pie. As long as the videos are there to be viewed, and creeps are willing to share links to them, and there’s an internet of options where they can gather and comment, not even counting the YouTube comments, it will be done.
Both my daughters are adults, but when they were kids I never let them post videos of themselves on YouTube or other social media. It just didn’t seem prudent; but it also wasn’t as easy to do as it is now.
If your sample size is one, I don’t think you can accurately say “all pedophiles match this one”. At best you can say that your uncle didn’t do this. And there could be any number of reasons for that, up to and including he didn’t think of it, or innocent videos didn’t do it for him.
