[krapp]

But if Youtube are demonetizing some pro-gun and right-wing accounts, and not demonetizing others with the same politics, as well as demonetizing other kinds of content such as anime and let's plays, wouldn't that imply a lack of ideological bias behind demonetization?

[command]

That's a fair argument. I'd question the motive behind stripping videos like that: copyright issues or something deeper?

To be clear I'm not taking a political side, I just haven't really noticed too many left-leaning content makers take hits at the same rate.

[krapp]

> I'd question the motive behind stripping videos like that: copyright issues or something deeper

Probably copyright - I honestly think all of this is about "advertiser friendliness," that YouTube is pushing this demonetization scheme ever harder because they're increasingly more desperate to make a profit from the site.

>I just haven't really noticed too many left-leaning content makers take hits at the same rate

How many of those left-leaning channels do you follow? If there were mass demonetization of left-wing content as well, how would you know? Is there objective evidence for a disproportional effect based on political bias?

It took me a second of Googling to find a thread on /r/socialism claiming that Youtube demonetizes left-wing content due to it's right-wing bias[0], so it seems both ends of the political spectrum feel attacked. Maybe it's just a case of extremist politics not being advertiser friendly?

[0]https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/7somky/where_are...