Another aspect of the YouTube debate, or more accurately the role of videos in politics, is that neither Chen, nor YouTube’s owners at Google, nor anyone else seemed to have a good idea of what limits should apply to political videos on YouTube, or on the web in general. They talk about the dream of creating an “open platform,” but they also worry about being a platform for “personal attacks.” Since there are a lot of personal attacks in politics, especially as Election Day nears, it’s a question they’ll be facing a lot. And since YouTube didn’t even exist during the last presidential election, I get the impression that they’ll be making up the rules as they go along.