"Freedom of video publishing belongs to those who own the platform."
The good news is that anyone can own a platform these days. If you want to publish something, you can do it yourself very easily. You don't have to have youtube do it for you.
[1] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/05/21/free-press/#:~:text....
It makes a lot of sense for individual publications, or even Reddit banning certain communities, since people looking for alternatives will know to do so. It's a lot more insidious in a case like this, since there's no clear indication that anything is missing.
Maybe it will be a net good to separate out the hardcore conspiracy types, but given how relatively widespread sympathy to this idea is, I wonder if it won't just create more and more polarized platforms, which I personally think will only worsen things.
I don't really have any alternative suggestions, and I do think the way ideas spread on the internet is pretty frightening, but I'm not how good the long term results of this are gonna be.
I'm not so concerned with this level of "censorship" in and of itself. But what happens, when, inevitably, the media starts to demand the same out of Google, AWS, ISPs? That's the truly scary prospect.
EDIT: scary