can we design a system which provably can not be manipulated by the status quo (youtube and others) to cause these issues? in theory YT could be poisoning the well with porn, some of its own lesser random videos; in order to arrange copyright violations; analyze and exploit the lack of language filtering etc...
I am not claiming the status quo is proven to be the cause of these issues, but I do claim that I know of no proof which proves the system to be resilient against such manipulation. Perhaps if one succeeds in designing a system that is provably resilient in some sense, the problems would automagically disappear?
Maybe let people create post moderated curated lists of things where anyone can post stuff and then let anyone to subscribe to those lists. If you stop being satisfied with curation of some lists, you unsubscribe and choose other lists.
I am not claiming the status quo is proven to be the cause of these issues, but I do claim that I know of no proof which proves the system to be resilient against such manipulation. Perhaps if one succeeds in designing a system that is provably resilient in some sense, the problems would automagically disappear?