| No, that isn't what's happening. You're probably not aware of this if you only read particular media outlets but YouTube keep doing this and they keep defending it. It's absolutely intentional and the headlines aren't misleading people, you are. Read the article: "They rejected our appeal to have the video reinstated." - appeals are at least looked at by humans and the humans are affirming they made the right call. Most likely the only reason this one got fixed is someone internally caused a stink and got it looked at by someone higher up, as usual for Google. But most of the time that isn't happening. Here's another example of them erasing a video by an actual epidemiologist: https://nypost.com/2020/05/16/youtube-censors-epidemiologist... Ivy Choi, a YouTube spokesperson, told The Post in a statement: “We quickly remove flagged content that violates our Community Guidelines, including content that explicitly disputes the efficacy of global or local healthy authority recommended guidance on social distancing that may lead others to act against that guidance. We are committed to continue providing timely and helpful information at this critical time.” Note: you aren't allowed to disagree with or even dispute the efficacy of government policy. Period. There's no difference at this point in policy between a Chinese video site and YouTube, just that the latter are censoring criticism of the state because they've been internally taken over by authoritarians loyal to generic "authority", not because they're forced to. But in the end how does Chinese censorship work? Well, it's not like Xi individually orders people to kill individual stories. It works by ensuring that information services are run by people loyal to the state, who then take decisions autonomously to defend the state. |
Yet the video is up and working just fine...