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Then they are slaves to the customers. Post something the customer doesn't like? Customer leaves and the site loses money. Incentive is for the content to become family friendly low detail low effort lowest-common-denominator because that appeals to largest range of potential customers.

> "Sites like YouTube are a perfect example of this. Constant censorship and other nonsense because many of their advertisers are American, and thus 'prude as fuck' (lack of a better term). So content on YouTube has slowly been becoming more and more squeaky clean (advertiser friendly)."

You think YouTube could skip the advertisers, sell directly to soccer moms, and then have porn adverts and swearing and raise their middle finger, and that would work?