No
As in the case of Dressage Hub being banned from the venue in Florida.
I participate in a clinic series where you get an official video of all your rides but are not supposed to post it publicly and are not allowed to take other photos or video of rides.
It’s quite a sensible rule and since it’s a relatively small group and ongoing it can be enforced.
Not everything needs to go public.
The vast overload of random stuff on the internet protects most low level folk in all areas from much attention or scrutiny unless something “goes viral.” How many of us were actually watching the Del Mar feed in real time to catch this versus finding out about it on social media? A very bad ride like this could slip under the radar if no one who saw it was inclined to post it to a large forum.
I expect most ammies never thought through the fact that live feed means they are being broadcast to the world unedited and unfiltered with a commentator you didn’t even hear during the ride.
That’s pretty intimidating. Especially if you figure the whole world will be scrutinizing the next feed looking for click bait.
I agree that in a reasonable world most ammies should have nothing to fear. But as we see with Dressage Hub and Writing About Riding and no doubt lots of personal FB pages, anyone can be the focus of intense and not fully warranted attack.
COTH is probably more level headed than most other sites that allow actual discussion and opinion.
