Comment by mrguyorama

Specifically, the COVID policies massively impacted people trying to spread official info about covid even.

Which is the primary problem of any youtube policy: It's not real, because they treat the output of some underspecced ML model as gods truth.

There was a period where you could not say the word covid without getting downranked, even in passing

Even if you believe it was important to limit the spread of misinformation about covid, youtube did not do that, and made things worse

I don't like Rumble, but Brandon Herrera I think has created a new platform specifically for Guntubers, and I don't very much like the man's content but I hope it succeeds because the policies around guns are just absurd and broken, and generally do not even remotely match the claimed policy.

Similarly, the guy from Armchair Historian tried to go his own way, but I think that failed.

The problem is not "any moderation", or "the left", like rumble seems to think. The problem is that Google's claimed policies are not their actual policies, and their claimed policies are fairly stupid and restricted for all audiences, especially if you aren't American, and are driven entirely by advertiser preferences and dice rolls.