YouTube deleted an electronics repair channel [video]
Googler here, who doesn&#x27;t work in the YouTube PA.<p>It does certainly seem like this was an erroneous take-down.  I&#x27;m not familiar with the content, but I can&#x27;t imagine a more innocuous channel.  If JPdylon is out there, the first recommendation is to appeal the decision [1].<p>Granted that doesn&#x27;t always work, and it&#x27;s unfortunate that common next step is to resort to &quot;Support via Hacker News&quot;.  That being said, content moderation is a super hard problem.  It needs to get better and more fair on both sides (i.e. taking down what should be; leaving up what is quality content), but the scale here is often forgotten.<p>There is far, far too much content posted to manually review.  If EEVblog&#x27;s suggestion was taken and 
Susan (YouTube CEO) had to manually review every moderation action on channels with 5K+ subs, she would not be able to keep up.  If you had a team of people, they would not be able to keep up.  Even if you had a fleet of people, the scale is just unreal.<p>EEVblog&#x27;s suggestion to diversify platforms is reasonable.  The fact that those platforms don&#x27;t have some of the same problems doesn&#x27;t necessarily mean that they&#x27;re better at content moderation, however.  They just don&#x27;t have to operate on the same scale.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.google.com&#x2F;youtube&#x2F;answer&#x2F;185111" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.google.com&#x2F;youtube&#x2F;answer&#x2F;185111</a>