Your argument would be more compelling if it were really specific to YouTube but guess what, all kinds of institutions have been suppressing all kinds of topics

Your argument would be more compelling if it were really specific to YouTube but guess what, all kinds of institutions have been suppressing all kinds of topics, including journals, arXiv sites, ResearchGate and so on. The problem here is not scientific debate happening with the "wrong" technologies (lol) but rather than some ideas are simply being suppressed by certain factions within society for their own ends, in ways that are both: a. Illegitimate b. Foolish If collective expertise itself sounds oppressive to you, wait until you try the oppression from giving authority to collective ignorance. That's exactly what has happened here. The actual expertise is being oppressed by YouTube moderators, who are themselves responding to instructions decided by Susan Wojcicki, a woman with no scientific or medical expertise whatsoever, who isn't even a software engineer, in fact a woman who is famous primarily for losing against YouTube in the market when she had to compete against them. An outcome that occurred largely because YouTube bet on user generated content, whilst Wojcicki became obsessed with professionally produced movies and TV shows. Now, in a display of extraordinary hubris, arrogance and a mind-blowing inability to learn from mistakes, she has again decided that the whole user-generated content thing isn't the right way to go and that the only content allowed on the platform should be whatever institutions with "World" in their title approve of. She does this despite the fact that she lost the video war last time because of the same elitist views, despite that the WHO is not run by a doctor or medical specialist of any kind, despite that the WHO constantly changes its mind and is by now totally discredited, and despite many other factors that should have led to this policy being scrapped within minutes of being proposed.