Hey intern, great post buddy. I definately agree with what you said. I do however have to point out that I don't think Youtube censors people. Youtubes advertising program is funded by advertisers so they have no choice but to keep them happy. I do with Youtube/Adsense would allow advertisers a choice like NSFW and family friendly so advertisers and creators had more choices but at the end of the day Youtube isn't really stopping anyone from creating the type of content they want, creators are just not wanting to create content if they are not going to be paid for it which is somewhat understandable.

My Youtube niche is pretty advertiser friendly. I sometimes maybe would be a little bit more out there or may cuss a bit more or cover some more controversial topics if that weren't in my head, but at the end of the day I don't find it too restrictive.

I think the people who are most unfortunately affected by this are the news and current event channels. They can't cover certain topics simply because a keyword will block their video from being monetized when in reality there's nothing really raunchy or not advertiser friendly about what they are doing.

Great post though I think you brought up some excellent points.