> Say that Google would need to hire a million full-time moderators (in practice it's probably more) You can't use made-up numbers to prove your point. Approx

> Say that Google would need to hire a million full-time moderators (in practice it's probably more) You can't use made-up numbers to prove your point. Approx 800,000 hours of video are uploaded to Youtube every day. Watching all of those in full at normal speed would require only 100,000 full time mods, but that's just about the dumbest way to go about it, so in reality it will be much less. > it won't be sustainable for a hundred companies > bad actors can just post the same content on multiple platforms automatically You'll have to reconcile this fatalism with the myriad of smaller communities managing spam and moderation just fine. Millions (not "hundreds") of topical forums (incl. independent ones, and on platforms like reddit) are doing fine, often without full time or paid moderators. > if you wanna upload something you have to pay a fee for moderators to look over your video and certify it as safe. Since no one will opt-in to that willingly while free alternatives exist, you're essentially proposing state-mandated censorship. No thanks. I'd rather Facebook / Youtube just die if their consolidated asses can't keep up with what they created.