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YouTube makes 31 billion dollars a year in advertising revenue. I am sure they could afford paying a couple hundred people with fluency in popular languages to
by mschuster91 2y ago
YouTube makes 31 billion dollars a year in advertising revenue.
I am sure they could afford paying a couple hundred people with fluency in popular languages to do actual content moderation instead of abusing the general public to notice stuff going bad and press/courts as support system.
- gwbas1c 2y ago> a couple hundred people That will only scratch the surface. There are way more videos to watch than that; and way more dangerous videos. To put it in perspective: I pay $22 / month for a family plan. That pays for 0.5 / 4 hours of labor, depending on who/where you hire. We probably watch 40+ hours of Youtube a month. In contrast, "in the olden days" when TV only had a few channels, you betcha someone was carefully choosing what went out over the airwaves. So think more critically about numbers here: There's no way "a couple hundred people" can police Youtube. The economics don't make sense.