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Google/YouTube needs to admit defeat in this area and stop trying to censor, they are doing more harm than good.


Is there sufficient data available to actually draw that conclusion? All we generally hear about are videos that are taken down because they are false positives, and usually those are just down temporarily. We'd have to know how many are taken down that are not false positives, and how harmful those were, in order to begin to estimate net harm or good.


Just admit defeat and let all the advertisers pull out?[1] Then go bankrupt and (like Soundcloud was on the verge of) let everything get deleted?

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/25/google-yo...


Maybe the advertisement-funded content needs to be pulled into question then




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