I don't understand why everyone is so surprised by these kinds of maneuvers. Unlike in the good ol days of YouTube, they now have corporate sponsorship (otherwise known as advertisers) from very powerful media conglomerates who pay big bucks to YT to feature their content. When you steal their audience with a competing and conflicting narrative, your small time ass is going to get bullied and put in your place. It's a turf war (or info war) and so they are not going to let the alternative media get away with pissing on their turf. Unless you stop using their site (which no one is going to do as they have the best format and greatest volume of material) then you will continue to get more of the same. We are just going to have to find, or create alternative means and platforms to communicate our message. The only way we can change them is by hurting their wallet, which we can do with our absence, or by using things like the new Brave Browser which filters out all ads on YouTube, thereby cancelling out their ad revenue. This site called steemit is a good step in that direction, but it is only the beginning. We have to build our own infrastructure to carry our content and not rely on outside sources like YouTube. I am confident this will happen with time because I see very determined people on this site. Viva la steemit!