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It's not just google as a corporation, it's google as a legal entity. Have your own site in your own individual name with no corporate entity nor search for pr
by nolok 5y ago
It's not just google as a corporation, it's google as a legal entity.
Have your own site in your own individual name with no corporate entity nor search for profit offering to host people's videos for free, and I guarantee you that within 24h you are dealing with things ranging from pedophilia to copyright violations and the like. And if you don't clear them out, you're the one responsible.
Google is acting the way society has decided they should act through the laws it voted. Could they act another, more expensive, way in order to save a bit more of content that get caught by mistake ? Definitely, but why would they as a company when the laws says any mistake or delay is their fault.
Source: like many people, I once made a free image hosting thingy. It was overrun by pedos within a week to my absolute horror and shock. Copyright infringement is obviously not the same at all, BUT the way the law act toward the host is not that different "ensure there is none and be proactive in cleaning, or else ...".
- sfgweilr4f 5y agoYour free image hosting thingy is an example of low barrier to entry both in cost and anonymity. If you had made the cost trivial but traceable I wonder what the outcome would have been. I wonder if a site like lobste.rs but for video would work better. A graph of who is posting what and a graph of how they got onto the site in the first place. If you vouch for someone who is dodgy now you are also seen as a little dodgier than you were before. This doesn't necessarily mean you lose your account because you happened to vouch for someone, but it might mean that your vouching means less in future.