I think it's just a financial decision. If enough people were highly offended by the purveyors of kitten videos that ad buyers wouldn't want to be associated wi

I think it's just a financial decision. If enough people were highly offended by the purveyors of kitten videos that ad buyers wouldn't want to be associated with that they'd demonitize all of those too. Kitten lovers will watch other videos anyway. Of nobody if cared at all about the content of whatever video they sold an ad over I'm sure YouTube would love it. One less hassle for them. But that just ain't so. They could introduce some system to deal with it in a more granular way, but I doubt enough advertisers would want that as opting in would make them appear to take a side. Way better for business to to just keep things non controversial and be done with it.