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>>furcyd+(OP)
Google absolutely can do all of those things without an algorithm. What they can't do is accomplish that without impacting profit margins (or at the minimum, executive bonuses). "If it impacts business as usual, then it is impossible" is a naive/flawed/libertarian stance.

>>ilikeh+Qk
You do realize that to cover current needs (400h uploaded every minute), YouTube would need to employ more than 72000 people working full time right?

>>xondon+Fm
And these people would inevitably make some number of mistakes in categorization too, or miss something, or just be unable to quite hit some baseline universal standard that doesn't upset a group. Then YouTube still gets the bad press.