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YouTube relaxes moderation rules to allow more controversial content
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this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2025
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I watch a sketch comedy group that gets abused by YouTube's moderation. Some of their stuff leans edgy, but the moderation and demonetization seems pretty arbitrary. There is no viable appeal process or viable alternative platform. Reminds me of how Google controls the Play store and removes open source projects for arbitrary or spurious reasons.
I take less issue with aggressive moderation and more issue with the lack of infrastructure to handle the concept that the first line ai decision might be wrong.
Adding to that - Google's effective monopolization of "amateur" video distribution, and coincidentally monopolization of app distribution and monetization on the 70% market share mobile platform, makes it more problematic that the company is unanswerable to moderation mistakes.