Why are videogame communities so consistently toxic?

That’s your new point, that you meant all along?

(I wonder what your next one will be, that you meant all along?)

You’re still actually arguing about broadcast dangers, though. Your example, Milo, makes his own case that peer-to-peer isn’t a way to build a profitable personal brand.

That sounds amazing. It really makes me want to invest in the company that guarantees millions of views just by pushing a few on-screen buttons.

Obviously people spewing racism and dangerous conspiracy theories need be regulated off of broadcasting platforms. That’s the same as what should have happened (more quickly) to Alex Jones when he was building his personal brand as a radio host, broadcasting on radio.

(People used to write letters (a long-standing peer-to-peer technology) to try to de-platform broadcast stars they didn’t agree with, individually or in mass campaigns. These efforts were also seen as generally ineffective on the whole, but sometimes worked, for good or ill.)

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