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It requires all of these things, yes, but it also must deal with a topic approved by Google. So not offensive to an american coastal liberal type of person.

One popular channel who commentates on american police body cam footage, replaces the gunshot sounds with animal noises. It's ridiculous. Also no discussion or use of tobacco. Many times I've heard people refer to Adolf Hitler as "bad mustache man" for fear of getting censored or demonetised. One channel that discusses historical firearms, is censoring the 1933-1945 german reichsflag. And so on and so on. It's all so tiresome.



It's unfortunately not just YouTube but all social media. Self-censoring like "unalived" or 'k**ed" to avoid the wrath of the algorithm is becoming all too common.




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