<story><title>YouTube’s LGBTQ Problem Is a Business-Model Problem</title><url>https://onezero.medium.com/youtubes-lgbtq-problem-is-a-business-model-problem-2b3cb3754b64</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pdkl95</author><text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  s&amp;#x2F;(algorithmic|human) moderation&amp;#x2F;a rule of law&amp;#x2F;g
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This mess will only get worse as long as Google insists on trying to fix unsolved social conflicts unilaterally. Google made themselves the primary target when they started to make decisions with large social consequences by fiat. They &lt;i&gt;de facto&lt;/i&gt; implemented &lt;i&gt;rule of man&lt;/i&gt;[1].&lt;p&gt;The solution is to &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; be the sole entity with the power to make decisions about unsolved social issues. Relinquish the power to make decisions about what kind of content is &amp;quot;acceptable&amp;quot; by implementing a &lt;i&gt;rule of law&lt;/i&gt; managed by some kind of publicly accountable, transparent governance,&lt;p&gt;Google (and anybody else that controls something the public relies upon as infrastructure) has a ch9oice: keep the power to make socially-important decisio9ns and accept the blame and responsibility for those decisions, or abandon that power to make the whole mess someone else&amp;#x27;s problem.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Rule_of_man&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Rule_of_man&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>YouTube’s LGBTQ Problem Is a Business-Model Problem</title><url>https://onezero.medium.com/youtubes-lgbtq-problem-is-a-business-model-problem-2b3cb3754b64</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Mirioron</author><text>The thing is that a lot of us saw this coming. Whenever people complain about how YouTube needs to remove X type of content, they also need to realize that if YouTube actually starts policing that type of content then there will be false positives. Since YouTube will do it algorithmically, the chance that there will be collateral damage is much higher and YouTube takes a long time to reverse decisions they&amp;#x27;ve already made.&lt;p&gt;For example, YouTube doesn&amp;#x27;t want violent content. Just having the word &amp;quot;kill&amp;quot; in your title can get the content demonetized, even if the content is about a video game and properly categorized as such. It&amp;#x27;s been this way for years.</text></comment>