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by stcredzero 2627 days ago
They do it, because they want to avoid bad PR and avoid advertisers from doing yet another boycott.

A part of YouTube has been captured by activists, and a lot of that policy is warped to their ends. Often, this is political. Often, it's arbitrary abuse of power in service of this or that "Internet slap fight." Either way, it's looks bad to someone who can see the big picture.