Hacker News Reader

Yep! It isn't very hard to get someone punished for abusing the system if you have the resources.

YouTube did it a few years ago [1] to a popular creator in the Minecraft community who was threatening creator's with Community Guideline Strikes in order to extort them for money.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/man-agrees-to-pa...

View on HN

The more I hear about 'popular creators' or 'influencers' the more it seems like a popular career for people with character flaws that can't be easily hidden in face-to-face business environments.

I checked about half a dozen articles about this incident and none of them say the extortionist (Christopher Brady) was any sort of 'creator' or influencer. I can't find any reference to his name anywhere that describes him as any sort of content creator. I believe that claim is mistaken.

Sorry should have added some context! He was a content creator!

Here are some links that reference his YouTube channel name (cbrady350) which match to his real name Chris Brady.

[1] https://socialblade.com/youtube/c/cbrady350-pvp [2] http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sqnk16 [3] https://twitter.com/sk1er_/status/1163536914386960384

Reply on news.ycombinator.com