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Parent comment was also referring to YouTube's AI marking a benign video as 18+. Google is willing to wrongly punish people via excessive/unfair false positives in the interest of trying to be more advertiser friendly. It's just about money.


Well, false positives result in fewer scandals than false negatives here.

So guilty until proven innocent seems like a perfectly reasonable, if very annoying, stance.


It's not reasonable to screw innocent people over.


It's reasonable for a for-profit company that has a monopoly.


No monopoly necessary to make this commercially reasonable stance to take.

(And, there's no monopoly situation here in any case.)




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