YouTube doesn't care how or why you make money as long as they make money too.
If they could get away with legally showing child porn, they would.
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If they could get away with legally showing child porn, they would.
Only if they want to face another advertiser revolt.
And, as you said, thwy want to make money. Passing off their advertisers is counterproductive to that goal.
True, I should have said that if they could legally get away with it and knew they wouldn't lose advertisers.
So basically only in a wildly different world in which child porn was widely socially accepted?
I think you are missing my point- YouTube doesn't care what is on its platform as long as its legal (or at least not so illegal that they themselves would get into trouble) and they can make money from it.
They don't care if Neo-Nazis make money. They don't care if children are exposed to things they shouldn't be. They don't give a fuck.
People have uploaded videos to YouTube where animals were tortured. Did YouTube get penalized for that? No, the people who have done it have gotten arrested. YouTube supposedly deletes them when they find them. They also do not give one flying fuck about the revenue those videos generate before they are taken down. Do they take that revenue and donate it to their local animal shelter? No. They use it to increase their bottom line.
And yes, if somehow child porn was legal and they felt that advertisers wouldn't leave them if they hosted it, they would host it.
Because Google is absolutely amoral. Money is the only thing that matters.
I'm not sure why one would expect anything else from a for-profit corporation.
I think that perhaps the bigger issue is that NeoNazis and such are socially acceptable enough to be permitted. That's a societal issue more than a Google issue. As you point out, if society did not tolerate it and thus it hurt their bottom line, they would remove it.
Christian aligned site that doesn't seem to mind when people don't treat the sojourner as their own.
Yeah, but that's in the old testament so it doesn't count /s
Should just arrest these idjits instead.
for what crime?
Harassment.
Did you not read the article?
Why can't the First Amendment auditors follow those miserable fucks ?
“We’re illegal hunters,” Yarbery told a store clerk while livestreaming at a Subway sandwich counter in Jacumba Hot Springs. “I’ve hunted a lot in my life, but I’ve never actually hunted people, and that’s what we’re doing now.”
I'm learning about mens rea and this is all I can think of.
Fuck these people.
This is a big ol witch hunt nothing burger intended for feel bads to just make you mad.
After the livestreamers left Texas, they went to Sasabe in Arizona and a migrant camp run by No More Deaths, a humanitarian organization that provides support for migrants crossing the border.
Isn't that a criminal trafficking organization?
Can't be as bad as rank and file GOP