monadic8

Yes, these platforms primarily exist to drain revenue from the long tail of unappreciated content. I don't think that's a positive thing.

....only if you can tie this to enough politicians that they fear for reelection and fight for it. These events are barely covered by major newspapers; there's zero chance of the reasonable solution happening.

There's not much evidence that the loss of the Library of Alexandria constituted much loss to human knowledge. This idea seems to come from Carl Sagan's Cosmos. While there a lot of good things to say about him he's not much of a historian.