YouTube already demotes you if you swear and ensures popular videos with "toxic" behavior never trend or get recommended. The problem is even videos as inane as PewDiePies latest congratulations song can get 22 million views in a day but still not hit trending because some arbitrarily decided nothing he creates can hit the trending list. Meanwhile Stephen Colbert can say trump is sucking Putin's cock and that video gets recommended because "if it's okay for tv it's okay for YouTube." You absolutely don't wa
It's in their guidelines [google.com]. (Which are more like general recommendations rather than exact rules, even though Google is perfectly in control of what gets demonettized. One of the reasons I'm not too upset about the EU fining them the same way - telling them they need to clean up their act without telling them exactly what they did wrong.)
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The almighty advertising dollar is their god and moral compass in everything.
I am tempted to Godwin this by raising the question who, or what, Google would considered to be toxic 75 years ago in Europe, but why bother when we have actual and recent indications of their morals. https://tech.slashdot.org/stor... [slashdot.org]
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"Toxic" is so vague and undefined (Score:5, Insightful)
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>YouTube already demotes you if you swear
I'm starting to hear more and more about that. Honest question: Is there any evidence for it? Is it in the TOS? TIA.
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Those guidelines are perfectly clear.
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The almighty advertising dollar is their god and moral compass in everything.
I am tempted to Godwin this by raising the question who, or what, Google would considered to be toxic 75 years ago in Europe, but why bother when we have actual and recent indications of their morals. https://tech.slashdot.org/stor... [slashdot.org]