YouTube's So-Called 'Open Letter' on Logan Paul Is Anything But Transparent

It appears YouTube's communications staff missed the memo on what 'open' actually means in the context of an open letter.

The streaming service published a Twitter thread this Tuesday, branding it as "an open letter to our community."

While the thread seemed to react to the fallout from Logan Paul's disturbing footage of a corpse, its language was muddled, indirect, and the very antithesis of openness.

The post appeared aimed at Paul's clip "We Found a Dead Body in Japan's Suicide Forest," in which the famous creator stumbles upon a deceased person and treats the tragedy as a joke.

Yet the thread fails to name Paul outright or outline any consequences he could encounter.

The platform omitted any mention of actions taken against Paul, and neglected to acknowledge that he — not YouTube — was the one who pulled the troubling footage from the site.

What the company did state was that it was implementing measures to prevent similar uploads from ever surfacing again.

HuffPost contacted YouTube seeking clarification on potential punishments for Paul and others who breach content rules, but a reply was not immediately provided.

Plenty of Twitter users, however, swiftly accused YouTube of dragging its feet and acting hypocritically in response to the Paul scandal.

Some simply pressed for clear answers to worries the supposed open letter sidestepped entirely.

Still others expressed bewilderment over YouTube's habit of dodging direct questions about how it operates.

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