https://twitter.com/reckless/status/1136088138357493761YouTube tried to explain this decision on background to us, but I made the call to ignore it because they won't go on the record. YouTube has a major harassment problem, but an even bigger problem with transparency and consistency of policy enforcement. It is not our job to paraphrase their explanations. It is their job to own their policy decisions.
A series of articles in mainstream publications does tend to make you recalculate profit implications. Since their ToS and its enforcement are so consistently fuzzy, they can just follow where the wind is blowing.