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I actually can't believe some people are defending youtube on this.

Sometimes I tend to hold some controversial beliefs temporarily for the sake of arguing. It helps to keep an open mind.

Why not? They have a hell of a lot more experience running a video sharing and networking service than most folks do.

And that somehow means they are making decisions optimal for users or society, contrary to their behavior history?

It means they're more likely to have the resources and data to think decisions like this through.

Especially given that I've seen other social networks take a similar course, I trust Google's analysis of the effect of visible vs. invisible dislike counts over the ad-hoc common sense of the uninvested technorati.

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