Deep state? Maybe, but that's completely out of my understanding.
Youtube? Definitely, but not completely under their own volition. But it's clear they won't think twice about enacting pro-censorship policies.
in my case "They" is usually referring to general leftists, people like Carlos Maza, who started this next Advoxalypse. It's usually leftist journalists who go off the deep end about asinine bullstuff who end up doing this. Many journalists have mistaken their interests and opinions with the interests and opinions of the general population, because companies will respond to articles like thousands upon thousands of people knocked at their door and shouted at them about it.
Whether they know it or not, and I do believe they know it, their voices and their power enable them to make decisions that effect everyone. This is not a power to take lightly, and it's certainly something to be acknowledged. Not everyone has a voice or really wants to speak up. However, misusing and abusing this voice to attack people you don't like at the cost of everyone else, is unethical in journalism, and it's immoral to everyone who is sane.
so you think youtube is absolutely not at fault for being hypocritical in the way they enforce their TOS? they ruin the platform for everyone and solved this issue in the worst way possible.
the way they act can be entirely summed up to "they want to make as much money as possible" regardless of the people on their platform, the journalist clearly pointed out in his tweets saying that youtube was being hypocritical by "celebrating pride" and hosting people like crowder. all youtube wants is to turn a profit.
in the end, they barely punished crowder and ruined the platform by making widely inconsistent statements and mass flagging videos that have nothing to do with this. Youtube is at fault here. Even the journalist is tweeting that this is not the way to go about this.
I've seen stuff tons of conservatives online who have actively tried to deplatform people, but when it's one of theirs being attacked, turn around and whine about free speech. (See: Keemstar, count dankula, etc.). There are tons of people being so actively hypocritical about these things it's insane, and then there's people like you, who I believe act in good faith, but are supporting people that in long run will do nothing when anyone on the left gets deplatformed.
youtube doesn't have a left leaning bias, they pretend to be "woke" for money, they have a capitalistic bias. they have no inherent motivation to enforce a leftist hegemony because they constantly double dip on both sides for the money. This, in turn, causes situations like this because they have no idea how to act. They are trying to please everyone in this situation and its failing horribly.
