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> But when individuals flag up problems only a third of it is taken down.

Because they don't give enough importance to these requests, or because many of the requests are invalid? If it's the former, that's something that content hosts should be held accountable for. If people flag stuff for you for free, you better use that information...

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Flagging as a means of shutting down opinions people disagree with or to target groups they don't like is unfortunately very common. Sometimes even in organized fashion, where a group will urge its members to flag content from someone they oppose. There have also been instances where a group tried to invoke copyright infringement because someone said their name in a video.

It's assumed this is just an issue of manpower, but it's a much thornier problem. There's a point where a video isn't obviously in violation of community standards and at that point, you're asking one of 100,000 different people to make a judgement call. You're bound to get some wrong and the someone will create a whole other post on HN about it.

How can the host be accountable for not having enough manpower to deal with abusive videos people upload to the service?

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