It is not a worthwhile platform in debates. You need to find a proper source. And no, they are not panicking. They are not an open forum where people can post anything that they want. I guess that they are panicking when they remove inappropriate content since that is not allowed either. They remove content that can be shown to be harmful to others. False and rather moronic claims can harm others as we have seen with the early claims about Covid19. People denying the obvious that Trump got his heinie waxed in the election are harming the country by lowering the faith in the election process. YouTube puts up with a lot of "stupid" but they have to draw the line somewhere.
YouTube..... is not a source. It's a platform. Just like a solid piece of science can be printed on cardboard, wood, plaster, paper, paper tower or written in the dirt...
The platform is not what is accredited. It's what is contained in the article, video or whatever.
It's not their right to decide what is "harmful to others".... is it?
I mean is that not what happened in all countries before they moved to communism? Some group of people decided that they alone had the right ideas and they deemed themselves to have the right to think FOR YOU as to what you should read or hear.
Just who do you want to think for you? Would you like it if your source deleted any material that hinted at evolution or anything that went counter to the fact that there is a God?
What if all sites started to promote God as real, evolution as false.. and deleted and blocked anything that you would take as fact?
Should any public platform have a small group of people that decide for the masses.. what they should be able to read.. hear.. observe?
A news paper, magazine, or any other edited news source MUST have it's sources well documented so as not to communicate slander or false information..
YouTube, Twitter and Facebook.. are not edited. They are not libel for what is posted.. They are not editors of the content.
Thus.. they should not be censors either.