I don't understand Disney sometimes. If he got a ban for doing something stupid then why didn't they ban his right to film and livestream? It might be harder to enforce but he's still making money off of the parks after deliberately disobeying their rules.
Disney screwed themselves with this. ALL photography or videography for commercial purposes is already forbidden on Disney property, unless you get Disney's explicit permission first.
Officially-approved productions have strict rules, including having to post signs informing guests that filming is in progress. I've been involved in quite a few of those, and Disney has representatives that supervise every second of the production.
Disney made the mistake of being greedy. They decided that the vloggers were free advertising, so they pretended not to notice the unauthorized filming. Then they made the even bigger mistake of treating some of them like legitimate press. It became a coveted perk -- the ultimate Disney exclusive! Disney's Media List is more mysterious, and harder to get into, than Club 33.
And so, of course, every idiot Disney fanatic with more cameras than brains slapped together a channel. Disney clearly, stupidly, never imagined that a dozen or so vloggers would rapidly turn into literally hundreds. 99% of them have such low view numbers, or such bad demographics, that they're absolutely useless to Disney.
Here's where Disney is stuck: applying rules unequally can, and does, lead to charges of discrimination, with accompanying ugly lawsuits. Disney has to enforce the rule for all, or for none. To enforce the rule for all would take a tremendous amount of time and effort, which wouldn't be cheap.
From my perspective, Disney's only got three ways out:
The easy way is if California and Florida pass privacy laws restricting public filming for profit. Never going to happen.
The best way for Disney would be if park guests forced the issue. The filming prohibition is one of the terms agreed to when buying a park ticket. We agree to follow the rules, with the reasonable assumption that Disney will be ensuring that other guests also follow the rules, or face the consequences. Disney is clearly in breach of that contract. A class action lawsuit by passholders would give them the excuse to crack down, and then start some sort of official permitting process. This is also never going to happen.
The worst way, and the one that's going to happen eventually, is that there will be a horrifying incident involving filming activity that will create such a furor that Disney will be forced to shut it all down. In a park full of children, we can sadly all imagine what kind of incident this may likely be, although women are open to victimization, as well. It's a story I haven't shared yet, and it's why I stepped away from here for six months, but it happened to me.
The end is coming, but it's going to take something more terrible than BLAB to get there.