[ehutch79]

Moderation. The hard part is Moderation.

Especially the larger you scale, the less this becomes a technical problem, and more of a 'how will people abuse this' problem.

Second hardest part? Paying for it. Streaming 1080 streams can get expensive. especially if it's unpaid. Costs grow exponentially with video quality. 4k is significantly more bandwidth.

there's tons of ways to stream video to people. that's the easy part.

[hfifjdghu]

Is the first part actually true though? YouTube goes well beyond just moderating actually dangerous or undeniably extremist (think Isis videos) viewpoints. And to what profit? Have any major platforms failed due lax moderation policies?

[brudgers]

Have any major platforms failed due lax moderation policies?

Yes, that's why you haven't heard of them.

They fail before they get big enough to be popular.

File sharing platforms - defined broadly enough to include Youtube - will attract adversaries with asymmetric incentives.

It will be easy for people trying to upload illegal content to upload illegal content to the degree you make it easy for people to upload content. [1]

When your file sharing server starts serving child-pornography - and it will - law enforcement will contact you and your best option will be shutting down.

You will never get to the point where radicalization videos are the problem.

[1]: What is illegal depends on which legal jurisdiction. What can legally be said about Atatürk is different in Turkey than Mexico. Libel in the UK is more broad than the US. Pictures of naked humans engaged in activity vary in legality around the world.

[ehutch79]

Sure, you don't hear about them because they were so full of spam no one bothered with them.

[ThrowawayTestr]

>Have any major platforms failed due lax moderation policies?

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