| Yes, this is a serious problem. The reality is that corporate justice is arbitrary and trivially influenced by activists. It's always safer to censor than to stand up for free speech.
The standard libertarian answer here is that there's always some other site to post on, but this is nonsense. It is in the nature of community sites that there needs to be a critical mass. A big part of what makes YouTube better than the competition is simply its market share. For that matter, imagine how useless eBay would be if it didn't have so many people using it.
Of deeper concern are ISP's who shut down sites or disable domains based on anything short of a court order forcing them to do so. Such companies should be sued to oblivion, as they violate the requirements of a common carrier.
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