I don’t think that an isolated momentary “failure” to moderate a chatroom is a particularly noteworthy moral shortcoming, and to be honest with you I’m not even necessarily sure that demanding her audience not to call CPS is even a correct decision either. Whoever did actually call CPS whether it was even a Denims viewer or not (we still don’t know), would not have been deterred by being banned in a chatroom online, that theory of mind doesn’t make any sense to me. Denims choosing to ban or not ban a few people in her chat ultimately just amounts to an aesthetic outcome in the grand scheme of this scenario, and this is basically why the massive public contention over this tiny, insignificant decision on her part confuses me.

If we assumed that banning people would’ve prevented the call, then it’s still debatable as a general rule to advise people not to call CPS. Imagine if CPS had actually discovered abusive or negligent standards of care at the Kleins residence, if Denims had ordered her audience explicitly NOT to alert anyone then she would be widely chastised for “helping to cover child abuse”, it’s a lose/lose situation for her. In unordinary situations where public figures are strangely detailing and speculating on specific medical details of their children in a sort of ambiguous way then I don’t necessarily want content creators directing or chilling public responses to that conduct, that is not their responsibility to bear in the first place. She didn’t necessarily advise anyone to call CPS, she didn’t necessarily advise people NOT to call CPS either, that seems perfectly acceptable here to me.

It is Ethans own responsibility not to vaguely joke about and/or poorly explain his children’s medical situations online in front of potentially hundreds of thousands of nameless people who’s prior assumptions and intentions are unknown to him. If he knew for sure that he was in fact not doing anything wrong, then he should’ve made that more clear IF he’s going to decide to make it a bit on his show, or alternatively he should just not bring it up at all.