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Nothing will happen. Helping users costs money. One of my friends was bullied and a humiliating video of it posted on YouTube. I was a Google employee at the time and filed a ticket with YouTube to have the video removed for violating the site's rules. YouTube ignored it and did nothing.

Google employees (including YouTube employees) only do what gets them promoted. This is all Larry & Sergei's fault. Only governments can make them behave as responsible members of society. So here's what you can do:

1. Report bad business practices to the FTC [0] or the European Commission department for Justice and Consumers [1]

2. Report the problem to your elected representatives [2].

3. Use the company's products less or migrate to a better-behaved product. I've done this with Facebook, Instagram, Google Maps (Apple Maps is good enough now), Google Search (DuckDuckGo is good enough), and Facebook Messenger (iMessage is good enough).

[0] https://reportfraud.ftc.gov

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/justice-and-consumers_...

[2] https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member




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