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Re:Tell HN: YouTube is banning accounts that support Ukraine by tyingq on Friday February 25, 2022 @11:39AM (#30469134)
It remains amusing to me that Google is able to be stymied by what is probably a ~200 person or less sweatshop of hackers and spammers. It doesn't match all their bravado about their level of expertise in AI/ML, automation, troves of metadata and historical patterns, etc.
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Re:Tell HN: YouTube is banning accounts that support Ukraine by Aunche on Friday February 25, 2022 @11:48AM (#30469243)
It's not a symmetric battle. The team of hackers and spammers has nothing to lose. Even if they're only successful 1% of the time, it's still a win.
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Re:Tell HN: YouTube is banning accounts that support Ukraine by tyingq on Friday February 25, 2022 @11:52AM (#30469278)
I'd venture it has more to do with where Google applies all that expertise. If it were hurting them, I imagine they would solve it quickly.
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Re:Tell HN: YouTube is banning accounts that support Ukraine by Scarblac on Friday February 25, 2022 @12:53PM (#30470006)
And even without all the AI, nothing is stopping Google from employing ten thousand human moderators or whatever.
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Re:Tell HN: YouTube is banning accounts that support Ukraine by ChrisLomont on Friday February 25, 2022 @01:13PM (#30470275)
Cost is a really big stopping reason. The problem not being worth solving to Google is another.
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