BOSTON—A citizen journalists’ group represented by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a federal lawsuit today against a Massachusetts community-access television company for falsely convincing YouTube to take down video clips of city government meetings. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S....
All of this is a consequence of YouTube automating virtually everything it does so they don't have to pay humans to review anything. All the whole, they make massive piles of cash from videos made by other humans they pay very little to.
At 30,000 hours of video per hour, I'll let you do the math about how many living wage employees would be needed to be trained and dedicated to watching those videos to manually review them.
I promise that even with Google money, they couldn't pay them all.
Exponential scaling works that way. It sucks, but automation is the only way to pull it off.