Thread:Ryan Stoppable/@comment-3477287-20140902234942/@comment-961279-20140903055309

I will have to read back through the policy, but the general idea was that because Disney isn't quite as flexible with the fans as other companies are, we didn't want to give them any reason to step in here. So instead we try to encourage people to go to official sources.

But the policy was written at a time when episodes pretty much always premiered first in the U.S. By the time Disney got around to showing them in other countries, they had long since aired here. A spoiler by going to a location other than YouTube wasn't even a possiblity. Gradually, we got reports of different episodes premiering first in various countries. It's a bit more commonplace now and the U.S. isn't always guaranteed to get an episode first.

As such, we have to look back over the policy and figure out what needs to be updated.