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Don't dare to express any dissent or foment controversy on Google's YouTube platform because their policy is to demonetize such videos as being "not adveriser-friendly".
Seriously?
Is the average Net user quite aware of just how much the stuff they see and hear online is shaped by giants like Google (and Facebook etc)?
It seems that YouTube is constantly lowering the bar when it comes to what triggers demonetization, to the extent that pretty soon the only videos qualifying will be those that endorse Alphabet's own ideologies and beliefs.
What a sad place the world is becoming.
Did you see anything wrong with the video that was demonetized?