Obviously yes. I imagine many people with nearly dead accounts will check the app and work this, and only this, day specifically for a good rate.
That's how contract employment works. Work when you want at a price that you agree to. No guarantees and no commitment. It's no way to live, which is why I pursued a salaried career. But it is useful in specific situations.
Yeah, striking as contractors isn't meaningful. I fully support strikes btw and am far left, but it just doesn't work for contract work. It only works when a legitimate union is formed. And the first step to achieving that is the refusal of contract work.
Yes, companies make money off products people want rather than those that they don't.
I agree the only solution is to end capitalism which is kinda what I was getting at. And I'm fine with the associated societal collapse. Worth it.
But in the meantime I'm not going to sit here and pretend Google (or any corporation) is specifically the 'evil bad guy' when they are just playing within the rules that society has set up for them. As are all the other companies, every single one.
It's extremely naive to expect a for-profit business to make decisions that go against their entire point of existence, which is to make money.
It is possible regardless, even when they try their best to delete it as they do now.
What's your solution here? Shut down all video streaming services entirely? Have actual humans reviewing every single video uploaded before being made public?
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.
YouTube already does have age restricted videos.
And do you actually think they don't already detect and flag potential porn using an algorithm? How do you think they prevent most of it from being on the site in the first place?
No one anywhere was claiming a 100% detection rate, which is why sometimes porn does in fact end up on YouTube until flagged manually by people who view it.
So basically only in a wildly different world in which child porn was widely socially accepted?
I wouldn't mind one of these for the next rave I go to.
Just ordered one. I had no real interest, but once you tell me I can't have one....I must have one.
Can we ban 'skate stoppers' intended to physically injure skaters who attempt the feature too?
Like, if it's designed from the start to not be super skateable that's fine. But adding things after the spot is already established that will cause people to 'catch' and fall seems a bit messed up.
Hard to call them stupid when they got to use it for free within the return window. Seems like a good deal. I agree with all the other points though.