...does anything kill a party faster than a safety czar?

If you say what Peter Hartlaub said in the Chronicle today about YouTube, you're likely to be crucified. But at the same time, did no one else see this coming? Here's a sampling:

"...there's a definite vibe that the wild fun times will soon be coming to an end. It's like your parents are coming up the driveway, and you've broken the crystal egg and are going to be grounded for the next eight months -- leaving you with nothing except the crazy memories of that brothel you ran out of their house over the weekend.

The circle of life on the Internet is very cruel: When giant corporations take interest in online cultural phenomena, they instantly become exponentially less cool. From Napster to MySpace to "Snakes on a Plane" -- all stopped being a good thing once the Man showed up in the room.

In the wake of Google's acquisition of YouTube, parents groups are already calling for a safety czar to regulate the user-built video library, much like the one that MySpace appointed when News Corp. purchased that site. And is there anything that kills a party faster than a safety czar? In a sense, Google's purchase of YouTube will almost certainly kill YouTube. "