YouTube only makes money if ads are shown on the video. YouTube also has an algorithm that chooses what gets promoted and recommended. There is absolutely no way that YouTube does not take into account whether a video is monetized when choosing recommendations. Ie this will most certainly limit the visibility of these kinds of videos.

It seems like the goalposts are moving in the conversation. People are acting like it's banned above, and then you're saying it hypothetically will be less but still nonzero proactive algorithmic promotion of the content, right?

Promoting the content is the same thing as endorsing it.

They recently removed videos against Covid vaccines.

Those videos lead to deaths - so that's completely reasonable. America has pretty much plateaued in terms of vaccination rates and that is prolonging a disaster.

If we're going to ban instructional bomb construction videos then I think anti-vax stuff is perfectly acceptable as well. I really don't understand where this miscomprehension that you should be able to say anything you want on private platforms comes from - there have always limits even on public speech, and private platforms have traditionally refused to print or publish items that go too strongly against their corporate beliefs. This even extends into print media and editorial boards.

> Those videos lead to deaths

Smoking and Drinking also directly cause deaths, yet as a society we are fine with taking such levels of risks and let people in videos show that they are smoking and drinking too. And don't get me started on opoids prescriptions which kill way more people that COVID all things considered (in years of life cost) and for which nobody seems to lift any finger to stop the carnage.

Which is why it's wrong on so many levels to censor stuff, because orgs that do that have no clue and no principles and just follow a certain political agenda instead of any rational motive.

How could video lead to death? I though it works only in horror films.

The US is currently 64% vaccinated even though the vaccine has been available there the longest - this is well behind most other western countries.

It is not answer for my question.

Every video leads to death. You waste 10 minutes of your limited time. You are 10 minutes closer to death after watching the video.

> Every video leads to death.

your comment has led to death too, by that kind of logic?

Ok, that is valid answer. Should we ban entire YouTube then?

Exactly, lol! It's a net detriment to mankind.

Well, "crate challenge" videos demonstably lead to deaths as well.

America prides itself on being the land of personal responsibility - I think the crate challenge stuff is quite dangerous and folks need to stop being idiots. But in the US people will cheer on Darwin Award candidates so that's sort of part of the culture now - doing something that harms other people is still a no-no though.

Not to mention science doesn't consider all opinions equal or worth publication in standard journals, etc.

Science is just more forgiving and less dogmatic than religion. etc.

Science certainly is. The "science" establishment in the USA... not so much. It is just as dogmatic as religion. Take the dogma of zoonotic origin of covid-19 in early 2020 for example. Where was the "less dogmatic" then?