In the past I would have agreed with your skepticism, but they just announced a huge human-powered review team: http://money.cnn.com/2017/12/05/technology/goog

In the past I would have agreed with your skepticism, but they just announced a huge human-powered review team: http://money.cnn.com/2017/12/05/technology/google-youtube-hiring-reviewers-offensive-videos/index.html http://money.cnn.com/2017/12/05/technology/google-youtube-hi... I don't know based on that article if it's directly related, but they've obviously decided that they need serious human review teams.