The more serious issue here is that other sites will use what YouTube is doing as a license to do this.
It's happened before. YouTube was instrumental in kicking off the acceptance of killing IE6.
Their point was that YouTube has influence, not that they’ve always used their influence for bad things. They’re doing bad things now though, and with their level of influence those bad things might spread all over the web.
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The more serious issue here is that other sites will use what YouTube is doing as a license to do this. It's happened before. YouTube was instrumental in kicking off the acceptance of killing IE6.
That was... not a bad thing?
Their point was that YouTube has influence, not that they’ve always used their influence for bad things. They’re doing bad things now though, and with their level of influence those bad things might spread all over the web.
That isn't. But it's an example of how influential they are.