Cyanide & Happiness Gets Demonetized by YouTube (remix) has been added as a related post - related requested by Fantomas on that post.

The most reasonable counterargument to this I've heard (and I'm not saying they're right, just eminently reasonable) was made yesterday by my favorite Canadian Let's Players:

1. Youtube has always had this content policy. Everyone who signs into the monetization program has always accepted this code of content before joining the monetization program.

2. Youtube has had this content practice for a long time. These videos were demonetized long before this recent 'scandal'. The only thing that has changed is that YT is now letting content creators know which videos were never being monetized in the first place.

3. It's not so much a question of content as it is of tags. The vast majority of content processing is based on the original tags by the uploaders, and you can avoid demonetization easily by having fewer, less controversial tags (that will also limit your viewership).

Obviously Youtube has been opaque and shitty in communicating how and why they make changes. But censorship? I would have a hard time going back in time to Bolshevik dissidents and telling them that censorship in the future means that a corporation that broadcasts your opinion for free won't always force other corporations to also pay you for those opinions.

*Edit: Also, eric3579's already got this shit covered, I just hadn't followed his links yet.

YouTube Demonetization Explained

Yeah it was a cunt move but he's not a douchebag. He's been a great part of securing the continent from colonialism and imperialism (from the US). Whatever kind of soccer he plays I don't care. What I fear for is the demonetization of people from the US to use as a precursor to justify putting new people in power, and by that I mean doing another coup. Because kneeing a soccer opponent relates to a coup. Now lets have a strawman bonfire.