As of 2015, there were 576,000 hours of video uploaded to YouTube per day. As of 2014, Facebook users generated 4 petabytes of data per day - four billion gigab

As of 2015, there were 576,000 hours of video uploaded to YouTube per day. As of 2014, Facebook users generated 4 petabytes of data per day - four billion gigabytes of photos, videos and text. Does anyone believe that it's feasible to manually review even a significant fraction of that content? Social media is media, but it's also social. A lot of people are trying to apply the standards of traditional media to something that's fundamentally different. I'm not sure where on the spectrum social media lies between "private conversation" and "network TV", but I don't think that we can exactly apply the social norms of either. The vast majority of people would agree that some degree of monitoring and censorship is necessary for the prevention of crime. Beyond that, I think we simply have to accept that some amount of content on social media might offend us. Social media is created by people with a very diverse range of beliefs, opinions and standards of decency, so it's unlikely that we'll establish a universally agreeable set of standards. Social media companies have a limited ability to control the content on their sites reactively or via algorithms, but it's logistically impossible for them to consistently enforce their terms of use across all content. Many voices in the traditional media would have us believe that occasional offence is a fundamental flaw in social media, but I think that's a bogus narrative. https://www.statista.com/statistics/259477/hours-of-video-uploaded-to-youtube-every-minute/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/259477/hours-of-video-up... https://research.fb.com/facebook-s-top-open-data-problems/ https://research.fb.com/facebook-s-top-open-data-problems/