YouTube has long been problematic with their removal of content (especially unsupportable copyright claims), but when it comes to this issue I don't care. Facebook and Twitter are still struggling to come up with guiding principles for content moderation and to distribute and standardize them to tens of thousands of moderators, so I'm willing to give them some leeway.

The core issue is: nobody has an expectation that they are guaranteed their (stupid) content _must_ be accepted by a social media platform.

So long as a person can make+host their own website or torrent for the controversial content (yes, I get that this is much higher friction), all that is lost is the _convenience_ to _find_ the content. I'd wager the Anarchist's Cookbook and issues of the ISIS magazines are still bouncing around the internet somewhere, but they shouldn't be available for the average teenager to stumble upon when their crazy uncle shares/retweets it to the world. It's a quick way to empower angst and anti-government sentiment among those who feel powerless (literally the recipe for terrorism).

The only thing I dislike about the removal of this video content is that it gives the gullible conspiracy theorists the "they are removing it because they know it's true!!1!" argument.