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by NicolasL-S 1348 days ago
I'm guessing the choice made by Google went like:

Option 1) Hire more staff to do a proper monitoring job on a per-video or per-channel basis. Option 2) Just demonetize every small youtuber who talks about the Ukraine war right now, no matter the guidelines.

1) costs money. 2) some mild reputation impact for us, but who cares about the livelihood of innocent bystanders who trusted our platform and actually respected our guidelines.