The Youtube issue seems analogous in that it's ok if "our guys" prevail. My bias is it's hard to interpret things without empirically predictive power as meaningful.

It's strange for me because I can see the rift between people as a tangible thing, where micro-classes have used the internet to become alien to one another, to where neighbours have developed completely different ontologies that are irreconcilably foreign. I think the problem is even those of us looking to bridge it keep looking for ways to repair it instead of forward to the ways in which it eventually heals.

Youtube is doing this because they think they're going to win. I'd just like to take the other side of that bet.