&gt;<i>If I ran YouTube I would censor the living heck out of it. The lack of effective moderation has turned the comments section into a niche tool.</i><p>If by &quot;niche tools&quot; you mean &quot;billions of people, of all races, countries, beliefs, politics, religion, ideology, etc&quot; participate in it, and no single ideology or ethics prevails, unlike in 99.999% of internet sites, then I agree.