They're legally required to do their best to maintain operation and profit at as high a level is legally allowed. If employees or management try to turn it off,

They're legally required to do their best to maintain operation and profit at as high a level is legally allowed. If employees or management try to turn it off, they get fired and replaced. YouTube is too big to fail, and heads would roll at Alphabet if there was a serious attempt to shut it down. Publicly traded companies serving as de facto public squares for hundreds of millions of people are a recent phenomena which societies are ill equipped to regulate. Let's hope things get better.