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by pippy 2073 days ago
Traditional media companies have a motive for social media to implement prohibitive self policing measures. Youtube recently caved and gave media companies an extra boost in their trending algorithm and exceptions to expletive language, which made vloggers upset: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44279189

Traditional media tends to stick to big three excuses to implement these measures; 'think of the children', terrorism, and cyber bulling.