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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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