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Originally Posted by Fuzz
The obvious reason people like this get de-platformed is for a site like Youtube, the customer is the advertiser. If the advertiser is not happy having their ads run alongside certain videos, they are going to pull their ads. So financially there is an incentive to keep people like this off the site. And we can see that happening right now with Facebook, who is trying to allow as much as possible, and major corporations are pulling their ads.
So if you don't like it, blame capitalism.
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Youtube actually takes less money to promote the sort of messages and creators they prefer.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/30/yout...d-revenue.html
Youtube isn't a single company, it's one part of a massive corporate conglomerate, so if they are being capitalistic, that means their corporation finds it more valuable for them to promote certain messages than to maximize profitability.