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Re:Google removes over 5M reviews from Play Store to improve... by frequentnapper on Monday May 25, 2020 @06:49PM (#23305721)
I happened to watch the video, which was a response to a Tiktok user badmouthing Youtube creators. I didn't really see any bullying, just funny retorts. I guess when it comes to Youtube, they just censor anything as long as enough people complain.
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Re:Google removes over 5M reviews from Play Store to improve... by Carpetsmoker on Monday May 25, 2020 @09:49PM (#23306701)
500 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube every minute; it's impossible to moderate all of that. "Lots of users reported it in a short timespan" is a reasonable heuristic to quickly remove ISIS beheading videos and whatnot.

It's not perfect, but nothing YouTube does at this kind of scale will be.

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Re:Google removes over 5M reviews from Play Store to improve... by frequentnapper on Monday May 25, 2020 @10:02PM (#23306778)
Right, but in addition, not providing any transparency to the content creator, or any ability to appeal the decision or re-instate the video in my opinion is unforgivable.
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Re:Google removes over 5M reviews from Play Store to improve... by Carpetsmoker on Monday May 25, 2020 @10:19PM (#23306866)
Yeah, the entire process of dealing with exceptions (or indeed, anything that involves human judgement) is atrocious at YouTube, and has been for many years.

jwz wrote about this years ago as well (and there are many more stories): https://www.jwz.org/blog/2014/10/youtubes-joke-of-a-fair-use...

That being said, I feel too many people fail to appreciate the problems YouTube is facing and are too quick to simply shout "censorship!"

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Re:Google removes over 5M reviews from Play Store to improve... by thrwaway69 on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @03:22AM (#23308318)
That link calls me a brogrammer man child... My ego is hurt.
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Re:Google removes over 5M reviews from Play Store to improve... by stonogo on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @01:17AM (#23307655)
> 500 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube every minute; it's impossible to moderate all of that.

Ironically, I hear about this fact every time Youtube makes the news for ... you know ... moderating all of that.

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Re:Google removes over 5M reviews from Play Store to improve... by andrewflnr on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @10:59AM (#23311981)
More accurately, they make the news for attempting and failing. Removing something benign is also a failure.
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