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Simple economics is main reason.

Regulating is expensive and they are not being paid for it. It Same reason why online social media would do as little content moderation as they can get away with .

Jon Oliver did a great piece yesterday on the state of non English content moderation on popular social media like YouTube and Facebook : the numbers he gave were 90% users can be non English but only 13% of the moderators deployed for other languages .

The real sad part is most of the content moderators for these companies all come from developing countries like India and already know a lot of other languages better than they do English.

They only care so far as to make users and regulators think they doing enough.



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