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There's no question about the value of the content youtube has accumulated. It's their stewardship of it that worries me.

• nicetryguy 6y ago
  Google tends to let automation do most of the work and apply a heavy hand to issues. I lost an entire account a few years ago, gmail address and all, due to copyrighted music on video games i was streaming. I got hard locked out, I didn't have personal info tied to that account, and they wanted some crazy validation information like what month did i create the account, and i had no idea. Since i only had 300 followers or so, there was nothing i could do to get it back. It was a bad feeling. It really made me think twice about what you do with big G, because they can take everything all away in an instant. I can't imagine trying to administrate / police all of the people / content on youtube. It's an impossible task. There are hundreds of millions of users with thousands of hours of content being generated every second of every day. It also cost more to run than it generates, so it's practically a public service. I wish there were more customization for recommendations though.