Ok, I can't read the WSJ article because it's behind a paywall, but I did read an ArsTechnica story about the issue [1]. With _only_ that information (which isn

Ok, I can't read the WSJ article because it's behind a paywall, but I did read an ArsTechnica story about the issue [1]. With _only_ that information (which isn't admittedly much) it appears to be a run-of-the-mill story of YouTube's content policies running amok. Some see nefarious purposes in YouTube's incompetence, but that cynical view doesn't hold up when one considers how consistently YouTube disappoints everyone. Seriously, just search for "YouTube demonetization" and you'll find dozens of similar stories that have _nothing_ to do with politics. YouTube's content filtering and management is a mess and it's always been a mess. Whether it's take down notices, tagging copyrighted content inappropriately, issues with demonetization and advertising, YouTube has consistently struggled with striking a balance between creators, consumers and advertisers. To take that mess and turn it into some sort of commentary about politics, censorship or a general threat to diversity of thought is cynicism and pandering that's worse than YouTube's alleged sins. I expect better out (or used to) out of my Hacker News commentary, but alas, few bothered to even look up the basics of this particular story. [1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/prageru-sues-youtube-says-it-censors-conservative-videos/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/prageru-sues-you...