Another example in the long, sad history of algorithm-driven companies having no respect for art or creativity or culture. It's not really something out of spite or distaste, but eventually you end up leaving a trail of bodies in your wake because you can only solve so many problems by having people watch over the algorithms, and your revenue takes priority over protecting culture.
Google ends up catching a lot of heat for this (rightfully so) if only because so many people use their services. High-traffic youtube videos filled with racial slurs and abuse staying up for 2 months before the abuse department finally takes action, or important pieces of cultural history getting nuked without explanation or recourse, or people's gmail accounts getting utterly destroyed with no ability to transfer the address or take a backup. In the end nothing can be done about this stuff because in many cases, nobody actually knows what happened.
The youtube case was especially troublesome because I went to great lengths to get it dealt with, and in the end it was a result of policy issues combined with bad technology - the human oversight was prevented from doing anything about the problem, and as a result vulnerable kids were exposed to torrents of hate and the uploaders reaped the ad revenue all while stealing another person's work.
Did you even read the previous comments from the earlier submission of this article? People likely complained about the nature of his content in addition to it being against their TOS.
Google ends up catching a lot of heat for this (rightfully so) if only because so many people use their services. High-traffic youtube videos filled with racial slurs and abuse staying up for 2 months before the abuse department finally takes action, or important pieces of cultural history getting nuked without explanation or recourse, or people's gmail accounts getting utterly destroyed with no ability to transfer the address or take a backup. In the end nothing can be done about this stuff because in many cases, nobody actually knows what happened.
The youtube case was especially troublesome because I went to great lengths to get it dealt with, and in the end it was a result of policy issues combined with bad technology - the human oversight was prevented from doing anything about the problem, and as a result vulnerable kids were exposed to torrents of hate and the uploaders reaped the ad revenue all while stealing another person's work.