YouTube's Content Moderation Has Become an Inconsistent Mess | WIRED

While YouTube has a written policy that ostensibly details what it deems acceptable, its recent posture toward InfoWars and other groups shows that it draws those lines inconsistently in practice. At times, the company seems to police videos primarily in response to public outcry, which makes its decisions inherently haphazard and potentially malleable. It’s a gargantuan task to try to moderate a site on which hundreds of hours of video are uploaded every minute—but it’s even harder if you don’t have clear, consistent rules about what’s allowed.