Ah, I think I recall the story you're referring to: reporter Josh Renaud of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch discovered that a public web site was exposing Social Security numbers of teachers in Missouri. He notified the site's administrators, and later published a story about the leak after it was fixed.
The governor of Missouri at the time, Mike Parson, called him a hacker and advocated prosecuting him. Fortunately the prosecutor's office declined to file charges though.
Google incentivizes takedown vote abuse.
1. 3 Strikes rules for channels
2. Automatic takedown systems based on votes
3. Incentivizing competing channels with ads
4. No verification/limits/punishment of bogus takedown voters and vote bots
5. Lack of democritized, universal takedowns of equivalent content
Does Microsoft unfairly benefit from Google's takedown tirefire? I do not know.
But if I were designing a voting system for takedowns it would be:
1. 1 non-DMCA takedown vote per user per year
2. No takedown votes for accounts less than 1 year old
3. Takedown all equivalent content when a video is voted down.
4. Verification of DMCA ownership before taking down DMCA-protected content.
This economy is in a bad and worsening state. But it definitely can get a whole lot worse.
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