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Would you be ok with @Facebook, @YouTube, and @Twitter putting #livestream content on a brief delay in the interest of better moderating hate content on their platforms?
Please understand that invoking the scale question (how social media platforms could reasonably monitor the scale of content they receive) is a talking point that protects the companies' ability to keep doing things exactly as they are today. Poorly.
These companies just broadcast the murder of 50 people across the globe in real time. We know from @CaseyNewton's reporting & others that moderators are treated terribly & paid badly. I encourage you to ask questions that challenge tech companies right now versus protecting them.
In the wake of Christchurch we shouldn't be asking how these companies can reasonably monitor the scale of content they receive, but why they have chosen to connect white nationalist terrorists with an on-demand global audience with no oversight & what they plan to do about it.
Final thing for now: as @ellievhall has reported, these companies have already enacted a successful crackdown on ISIS' use of social as a radicalizing/attention-getting tool. They know how to do it. They just haven't done it to the Nazis yet, despite that contingent being larger. 
