> As one Google rep emailed me in the 1990s, “If you were a 10-figure net worth institution, we woudn’t bother. But you aren’t.”
Google is rather heavily incentivized to try and automate as much as possible (and deal with the political blow-back when they stumble) instead of playing the cat-and-mouse game.
(As a fun thought experiment: ask yourself "If I were to design the algorithm that wouldn't have kicked Cornell off but would still auto-enforce the TOS, how would I do it?" And then ask yourself "If I were a malicious actor and the algorithm I designed were the one implemented, what kind of content could I create that the algorithm would fail to take down?").