alt Hacker NewsWe were talking about the state policing content in China. So the "YouTube content moderators" you mention would be government actors.
Like they have in the UK--police arresting people for content. The police don't work for Facebook, I'm sure you realize.
No, in China, the people running the platforms know what is acceptable and what's not. So, once the government tells them what's cool and what's not, the companies then police themselves.
Because unlike the US, where there are effectively no real consequences for companies that skirt the law, in China, the companies wouldn't dare try to skirt the law - executives in China know they can't bribe their way out of deliberately pissing off The Party when it comes to education.