Yes, it's automated, but there's some degree of oversight. Once again, there's no way they didn't realize that videos uploaded by one of their departments violated their monetization agreements.
And it's not senseless propaganda. It's already starting to happen, or is likely to happen.
Have you been paying attention to the YouTube scene? Like, at all?
> They would gain more advertisers paying them money to advertise with them.
I don't really understand what you're saying here. Why would more advertisers pay them money if less videos had advertisements?
Sounds like a fantastic deal to me, and I don't see why all those other creators should be punished just so that a few can gain money making content that is against the stated rules.
And again, this isn't censorship, if that content is really important to you, it will still be there for everyone to see, just not monetized.
The problem is, it's more than just a few rare cases: everyone from VEVO, to tiny channels, to the biggest channels on youtube, have been breaking these rules for years. And even if they don't think they have been, you can probably find violating content somewhere on the channel if you look hard enough, because the new rules are pretty broad. And the fact that the rules aren't being enforced equally makes it all the more BS, even if it's YouTube's prerogative to do so anyways.