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by asdff 2239 days ago
Of course they should. Youtube isn't bound by any law to be the standard video hosting site. They are simply the most popular over the past 10 years. Zero government mandate or anything. They can remove all hosted content tomorrow if they'd like, entirely up to them. If you don't like it, feel free to build your own platform. That's the beauty of disseminated knowledge of computer science and the internet, after all.
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> If you don't like it

... feel free to discuss about it on hacker news.

Regardless, would you say the same if someone was banned from a super market over being gay?

No, because there are laws against discriminating protected classes (although sexuality is not quite a protected class per se and laws can vary between states). There are no laws against discriminating bigoted content or propaganda, these aren't protected classes.
According to the current interpretation of the Civil Rights Act, you would not be able to prevent them from shopping
I am not in the USA, here it is legal to kick a gay person out.

But the question is not if it is legal or not, but if it is moral.