I didn't say that they remove every single piece of problem content, or that they remove every single thing a user flags. But I do believe that they go out of their way to do so. They make way too much money to do otherwise.

Also, they may (I hope) be a better company now than in the past, as your example seems to show (you indicate that they started requiring verification for uploaded videos). Maybe they grew up, or maybe they just realized that their revenue (or entire business) would be compromised unless they took serious, ongoing action.

In any case - Aylo/PH must certainly be better than many of the alternatives that are based in very permissive jurisdictions and just don't care. Those are the sites people in these Southern states are going to end up on now.

I'm sorry that in your case they failed though.

Yeah, no. They absolutely did not do everything in their capacity. The complete opposite is my anecdotal unsourced take.

I worked w/ a woman who used 1000s of sockpuppets of soldiers near military bases to try to wax out information about the aggression associated with their suggestion algorithms.

Pornhub is worse than YT when it comes to encouraging radicalism. She didn't even get to publish and she would receive dildos, fleshlights, and other horrific things. She left the country.

Sorry I fully fail to understand what you wrote. Can you try to clarify?

This isn’t a counterargument. Yes, mainstream US sites are not saints and have many serious issues. Also yes, they are least subject to US jurisdiction and can be held to some account. If these restrictions drive users to websites that are far, far worse then they will be doing more harm than good.

If i were interested in argument I'd cite dozens of papers from https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/dignity/

But whenever i've done so from alt accounts I get brigaded. I have literally paid people to edit comments to improve my tone and it makes no difference.

I'm just sharing a small, honest, account of lived experience. I come here for discussion. Not debate. certainly not argument. If i present myself incorrectly I try to act reflexively and openly.

Some people want to discount that and make everything fact based but sometimes sharing facts on the wrong forum just further reinforces injustice.

I do 20+ pushups, crunches, or burpees in between posts across the web. lol

Not OP.

You seem to be having some communication misalignments. What ticked me off is the combativeness you displayed. Insisting hard on your side with words like “blatantly” and “Yeah, no”. Also doing burpees and pushups sounds interesting - are you overstimulated? Is that a form of stimming? Are you in the spectrum?

Fair enough.

Whenever I've hired a copy editor to help me deal with the line noise in my writing (sometimes a keyboard feels like a Ouija board to me) I've found they inject more errors (and more serious errors) than I do myself.

And how exactly did she come to control thousands of military sock puppet accounts?

All aylo sites have a feature to take down content, it happens automatically and then content is sent for manual check. If it's a false report it's brought back online otherwise its permanently gone.

(sorry for throwaway account)

So you're saying it was not true several years ago, but is true now?

> So you're saying it was not true several years ago, but is true now?

IIRC, they only did anything because NYT op-ed writer basically went to war with them and shined a very bright light on all the shady stuff they were tolerating. That speaks to their true motivations.

> That speaks to their true motivations.

Yes, the same as almost every other corporation: money. Today they make more money with less risk by self-policing their content.

This anecdote does not remotely disprove the assertion.