Bullying Our Internet Friends is Bad for Business.

YouTube and its parent company Google have apparently decided to start bullying both employees and content creators. This is absurd, both from a business and from a psychological perspective. In this video I cover several recent events involving major big tech companies and censorship, as well as the communication and social psychology behind how we interact and understand new media figures on social media platforms, such as YouTube. Finally, I offer some solutions to these issues, both for users and for Google/YouTube respectively.

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