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>jobs which need to be done, but are harmful to the people doing them?

Does this job need to be done? Perhaps we have learned that opening a platform for anyone to upload anything in an anonymous state is not good for society.

Maybe it is time to force anyone uploading to YouTube to be approved prior.

All the hand wringing concerning online services and the belief they should exist since everyone seems to like them is something society has to deal with. No one is practically looking at the ill the services are doing to the world.

Why should anyone get PTSD to ensure YouTube can continue to offer videos? Wow.




Approved... by content moderators, perhaps?

Rearranging the deck chairs doesn't solve the fundamental dilemma.


Rearranging the deck chairs doesn't solve the fundamental dilemma.

Charging $10 or $100 per upload would kill this material stone dead. And ensure that everything could be traced to the person responsible if it did slip through.


Prescreening would massively damper speech to make it essentially Cable TV while not even solving the issue of PTSD as there would still be screeners. That isn't a solution - it is misguided spite.

Second it is the price of a remotely free society - not having to ask of freedom of speech - letting the government decide what is "unacceptable for society" with speech is foregone conclusion of abuse. Besides even if it was miraculously representative society doesn't even know what is good for society! The Romans thought that their gladiatorial games were opposing decadence and that wearing pants was barbaric and worse for society than putting lead in wine.


Raising the bar on people uploading wouldn't eliminate the need for this work; at best, it would reduce it.

Someone still needs to watch whatever gets uploaded, even if it's before that account is allowed to post publicly.




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