You make a good point @tezzajw about YouTube being privately owned, therefore calling the shots as to what can and cannot be censored. If the first amendment protects free speech and the freedom of the press, I don’t think it means that the corporate media (which owns YouTube) has any legal obligation to guarantee freedom of speech in its media outlets. Indeed, it has editors that determine the content of the “information” to be published.
Ironically, wouldn’t it be the onus of public media i.e., government-owned, to protect freedom of speech in its publications? (The media as the fourth branch of government upholding the Constitution and its amendments?)
Only joking, of course! Like that would ever happen! Like we’d ever get the truth anyway!
Let’s get real. It’s censorship, censorship all around, and we have to find a way around it, which is why many of us jumped to platforms like Steemit.