A lot of commenters here are suggesting Google took down these videos maliciously, as a conscious political act, or something along those lines. I don’t think

A lot of commenters here are suggesting Google took down these videos maliciously, as a conscious political act, or something along those lines. I don’t think so. I think they built a social network that is too big for human moderation, so they opted to do moderation by applying statistical models to user reports. That works great until malicious users work out how to game the system and take down videos they don’t like. So, here we are.