Corporate Censorship of Social Networks

In addition to simply not understanding the concept, companies such as CBS are also not understanding the audience. YouTube and MySpace have long resisted doing anything that might drive users away, because without their users, they are nothing. But the cost of running YouTube in particular became too great and they have begun allowing sponsorship. A deal with CBS brought their content to the site, but at a cost of editorial control over the site and site content. CBS has been filtering and vetting comments, and got all the comments moved to a page linked from the video page. They are "just trying to give users a nicer experience" but what they fail to see is that the site is extremely successful as it is. With few exceptions, no one was asking for a nicer experience according to CBS. There are other video sites (pick type: "rank") popping up. Some of them may be seeing an increase in traffic in the months to come.