Because in classic Carebear style... if we ignore something and pretend it doesn't exist, everything will be good again.
A lot of people seem to think this is the case. Ignoring a problem or situation somehow absolves society of any ill that might otherwise be uncovered by the truth.
I can't honestly stand here and say that I know for certain what this man's motives were. I can only stand by the wayside and gather up what little information that others decide to share with the world.
I do know that the mainstream media is not a neutral party. They have interests, lobbying groups, and higher-ups within their own organizations that have a vested interest in the direction that the world turns in the wake of anything they elect or elect not to take part in as part of their coverage process of making the news.
One of the biggest saving graces that the internet has afforded the public masses is the ability to share information. In the blink of an eye, a news story that would have falsified or otherwise lied about a news story 20+ years ago can be largely debunked within minutes of it happening.
When the batting average of a news outlet gets so low, people lose faith in it. What the CNN's, MSNBC's, FOX's of the world fail to recognize is that people aren't centering their news intake from them anymore. They're arguably not needed anymore at this point.
Gun videos have made Youtube a lot of money over the years, and no one attributed them to the on-going gun violence that routinely takes place every day in America such that they needed to be banned. However, one sensational event and a scapegoat is needed to sooth the troubling sense of vulnerability that society has suddenly become aware of.
YouTube is actually financially insolvable in terms of income. The platform is a financial deadzone for Google, they've tried for a long time to find a way to make money from the platform, but have failed to do so thus far. If anything the platform breaks even, but it's never made them money.
Youtube just doesn't want to get sued... because you know there is an army of litigation happy parties out there looking for something or someone to extract justice and more importantly, compensation from.
Google has one of the most visceral litigation experts on staff 24/7 in any corporation on the planet. The idea that they would get sued in such a manor is of virtually no consequence to them.
Pulling from my first point, the mainstream media is dying, everyone's getting their news aggregates from online sources, which happen to largely consist of YouTube as their platform of choice. If anything, this kind of freedom needs culling, and the best way to do this is by warping searches, throwing videos into a virtual black hole where they'll never see the light of day, to remove videos that express views that they themselves don't personally align with, and by giving the MSM a platform to character assassinate YouTube commentators.
Google just fired an engineer not a couple months ago because he wrote a document that suggested the idea that females within the company were being shoehorned into positions that didn't play to their strengths and that their strengths would be better served in other areas of the company.
The soul crushing control of the sway of public discourse is effectively passing the torch from the mainstream media to the biggest tech firm on the whole of the planet.
Google, like the mainstream media, is not an idle entity in all of this. They're dictating what can or cannot be said, and they hold a lot of power over the general public. How many of you use Google Chrome? Have a Gmail account? An Android phone or tablet? I'm pretty sure just about all of you do.
At the end of the day, all I care about is the truth. And if we can't get it from those that take the position of "truth tellers" within society, then we'll have to settle for the dissemination of truth from what the public can cobble together, then compare notes to what we're being told.
