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> you'd need to figure out if this is youtube deleting the comments or the channel owner.

I tried this myself on a Joe Rogan podcast, who doesn't speak Chinese and is based in L.A. and my comment was removed with 20 seconds. I very much doubt that he was the cause of the censorship.

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the "held comments" feature on youtube algorithmically hides comments it deems inappropriate if that feature is turned on and it's left to the review of the creator. I'm not sure if Joe Rogan has that turned on or not, but to accuse youtube of biased political censorship you'd have to actually show explicit bias towards the content.

I feel unless shown otherwise (and I'm not really keen on spamming random hate speech into youtube comment sections), I'd assume that slurs like that may have been caught in some generic filter.

From: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9483359?hl=en

YouTube can hold potentially inappropriate comments for review in the following languages: Arabic English French German Japanese Korean Portuguese Russian Spanish Turkish Vietnamese Thai Indonesian

Chinese is not one of them.

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