Cost of Pre-Screening All YouTube Content: US$37 Billion

Fluffeh writes "The folks that push 'Anti-Piracy' and 'Copying is Stealing' seem to often request that Google pre-screens content going up on YouTube and of course expect Google to cover the costs. No-one ever really asks the question how much it would cost, but some nicely laid out math by a curious mind points to a pretty hefty figure indeed. Starting with who to employ, their salary expectations and how many people it would take to cover the 72 hours of content uploaded every minute, the numbers start to get pretty large, pretty quickly. US$37 billion a year. Now compare that to Google's revenue for last year."

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Re:Judges are necessary

[h4rr4r]

So because Hate speech is in her holy book youtube should keep it up? What if I make a new holy book filled with hate speech about cpu6502 should youtube keep that video? I fail to see what book it was that contained this vile speech has to do with it.

Can you not see the difference between speech that targets a whole group vs 1 person?

Youtube would rather lose one ignorant user than a large group of users.

Re:Judges are necessary

[cpu6502]

>>>Or we could just euthanize anyone with a $ in their name and anyone stupid enough to interview them.

You must be one of those who posted "I gonna kill you!" death threats against the 16 year old girl, just because she's a christian. Typical liberal or democrat..... they are filled with more hate than the Republidicks.

Re:Judges are necessary

[cpu6502]

So I'm not allowed to post a video about the Chinese Communists and how much they suck, if we follow your interpretation. (Because it disparages a group.) This is how we lose our freedoms..... by not being able to share our opinion that we think same-sex marriage should not be allowed. While other videos in support of same-sex marriage is allowed to stand. This is how we have our mouths muzzles like dogs, instead of being freemen.

I sent the girl a twitter message, telling her to just keep re-uploading the video. If Google is truly a "do no evil" company then they will stop censoring Chrsitians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, et cetera.