Was going to say this.

As a whole, big corporations tend to embrace some retarded rules as a way to make it harder for new companies to breach the market, essentially creating a monopoly (or more commonly a oligopoly) by way of government issued rules.

The more regulations a business is under the less likely some new upstart can just join the fray. Just send a bit of cash to some politician to convince the others that your type of business needs to get an expensive certificate before they do something and you got yourself a nice higher barrier for entry

I get what you are saying as several online dating sites such as pounced.org went down because the owners didn't have the balls to keep running it without risking wrongful conviction under sosta/fosta in the event a sex trafficking scandal involving one of the users occurs.

That's what I was thinking. They don't have to police their site for content when automated bots will do it for them.

Malicious actors cashing in on fake DMCAs are just collateral damage along with those that uploaded the video in the first place.

Same reason the Google Play store used to be easy to sign up for and use as an app developer, and is now a complicated, ever-changing mess of legalese, consent forms, and strict requirements to prevent your app from being de-listed.

Big corporations can just have a person in charge of your online app store presence and lawyers to manage the legalese. Individuals or small groups are tolerated if they manage to complete the maze.

One of the more amusing things that's happened to my apps was that they were delisted because they used Google's own code that had been deemed insecure.