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Re:YouTube bans comments on all videos of children by Mirioron on Thursday February 28, 2019 @05:13PM (#19275787)
>I think that the reality is that until very recently there wasn’t a huge bag of money attached the having fantastic moderation tools.

Uh, spam? Spam has a pretty damn massive bag of money attached to it and nobody has managed to get it right. Every single spam filter catches a ridiculous amount of false-positives and spam is far easier to classify than what's required here. Youtube catches a ridiculous amount of comments as false positives in their spam filter. I can't imagine this new category is going to be any better.

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Re:YouTube bans comments on all videos of children by asdfasgasdgasdg on Thursday February 28, 2019 @07:36PM (#19276922)
> ridiculous amount of false-positives

Not to mention quite a few false negatives. And the stakes on this are possibly higher, so it will be tuned toward an even higher false-positive rate.

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