Column: Google's recent YouTube fiasco isn't just about privacy

We all know better than to read YouTube comments, the ignorant, barely literate epithets that malign gender, race, and sexual preference -- when they're not spamming for profitable work-at-home jobs -- posted below a video of cat inside a cardboard box. Arguably, the site is better known for the hate-spewing mouth-breathers who lurk in the comment sections than the videos themselves.

Uploaders and commenters with both brains and consciences have been clamoring for a fix for years. So Google valiantly stepped in and implemented a measure which it announced would put a cap atop YouTube's troll volcano.

But it's only made things worse.