YouTube’s content policy regularly demonetizes history channels, even ones which are throughly self-censoring and separating the most likely to be demonetized c

YouTube’s content policy regularly demonetizes history channels, even ones which are throughly self-censoring and separating the most likely to be demonetized content into separate videos. The EU digital services act incentivized YouTube to ramp up age restrictions to avoid running afoul of the law which basically strangles the financial viability of much of this content since you need to be logged in and the less people who see it the less people will be shown the video. So it’s not just simply YouTube mulling things and going they don’t want this content on their platform, it’s YouTube thinking it’s easier to blanket block everything and ask questions later in response to regulation. It’s not just how things have always been on YouTube things are getting worse and will get worse as more and more organizations believe YouTube needs to be reformed by threatening them and YouTube continues utilizing the cheapest laziest forms of compliance. We’re creating a world which isn’t in anybodies best interest just to be risk adverse against pissing off whatever special interest be it copyright holders, advertisers, or governments.