Even while in the middle of harassing the migrants, the livestreamers could still be heard thanking those who were sending them money via YouTube’s Super Chat function or through other platforms like Venmo and the Christian-aligned crowdfunding site GiveSendGo. In one situation, while Fulfer was shouting at migrants in Arizona telling them to go home, he stopped briefly to call out a supporter who had sent him $50 on Venmo.
Only if they want to face another advertiser revolt.
And, as you said, thwy want to make money. Passing off their advertisers is counterproductive to that goal.
True, I should have said that if they could legally get away with it and knew they wouldn’t lose advertisers.
So basically only in a wildly different world in which child porn was widely socially accepted?
I think you are missing my point- YouTube doesn’t care what is on its platform as long as its legal (or at least not so illegal that they themselves would get into trouble) and they can make money from it.
They don’t care if Neo-Nazis make money. They don’t care if children are exposed to things they shouldn’t be. They don’t give a fuck.
People have uploaded videos to YouTube where animals were tortured. Did YouTube get penalized for that? No, the people who have done it have gotten arrested. YouTube supposedly deletes them when they find them. They also do not give one flying fuck about the revenue those videos generate before they are taken down. Do they take that revenue and donate it to their local animal shelter? No. They use it to increase their bottom line.
And yes, if somehow child porn was legal and they felt that advertisers wouldn’t leave them if they hosted it, they would host it.
Because Google is absolutely amoral. Money is the only thing that matters.
I’m not sure why one would expect anything else from a for-profit corporation.
I think that perhaps the bigger issue is that NeoNazis and such are socially acceptable enough to be permitted. That’s a societal issue more than a Google issue. As you point out, if society did not tolerate it and thus it hurt their bottom line, they would remove it.