Your definition of 'open and free' smells a lot like 'built to favor commercial entities over information pages'

Most of my searches result in a wall of sales or product pages. Hardly 'open' when they turned it into glorified yellow pages

I think it was sarcasm.

Much like every other company, but at least I've see Google be mostly reasonable about it with a few exceptions. Much of the "deplatforming" isn't even do to Google per say but people abusing the copyright system on YouTube and many people not having adequate legal knowledge to defend themselves, or honestly just a lot of attention-seeking alt-right personality types constantly saying they are being deplatformed while they continue to use YouTube freely... Likely all one big part of a MCN pushing the same agenda.

Do you guys factor the deplatforming they do into this or are you not aware that they are heavily involved in censorship on their platforms

The person you're replying to was likely being sarcastic.

Tim Pool literally has to self-censor in real-time to avoid the robot bans. It's creepy as hell and has no place in a free society (regardless if you agree with him or not).

Let me guess... You're not a huge fan of free speech because your college professor told you it was an outdated concept WHILE still using it as a shield to spew his moronic views.