Tell HN: YouTube is banning accounts that support Ukraine

Re:Tell HN: YouTube is banning accounts that support Ukraine by philipov on Friday February 25, 2022 @11:52AM (#30469275)

If you want to be so successful as to become one of the premier public forums in society, don't start crying when you're held up to the standards and expectations of other public institutions. Google, go get ye that army of moderators.

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Re:Tell HN: YouTube is banning accounts that support Ukraine by simonh on Friday February 25, 2022 @12:10PM (#30469489)

Employing that many people would likely cost in the region of Google's entire earnings. It would make Youtube, or any service like it, financially impossible for anyone to run. So sure, I'm not saying we need Youtube, but what you're saying is we can't have it or anything like it.

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Re:Tell HN: YouTube is banning accounts that support Ukraine by HWR_14 on Friday February 25, 2022 @01:05PM (#30470171)

> Employing that many people would likely cost in the region of Google's entire earnings.

It would cost 2.5% of their profits if they had an entire US workforce and every video needed to be viewed in its entirety.

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Re:Tell HN: YouTube is banning accounts that support Ukraine by munk-a on Friday February 25, 2022 @12:16PM (#30469561)

I really appreciate YouTube's existence, but chances are a communal video streaming site that the entire world can trivially upload videos to should probably be a government run service if it exists at all.

There are a plethora of much more conservatively sized video uploading sites that vet and have specific contracts with their content producers.

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