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There is plenty of content they can't host and I'm sure tons of people were anxious to find examples they could use to take the site down with. Powerful governments aren't exactly too keen on the populous getting a real perspective of what war is like.

Also, bandwidth and power isn't cheap. They have to pay for it somehow.

Hosting video with lots of views probably isn't cheap.

Oh, so what do you do?

I run a Beef Jerky as a Service thing but really it's just a lever against inefficient ads networks' partner's policies.

This may be absolutely the most niche joke I've ever read in my life, and I am absolutely loving every word of it!

Hosting can cost quite a lot, these days usually due to data transfer but storage and compute can certainly pile up.

They do moderate it though. They have spent a fair bit of time removing certain shooting videos.