re: YouTube: More than 100,000 videos and over 17,000 channels removed

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The issue lies with whether or not YouTube is a public forum. They certainly claim to be a public forum - this insulates then from any civil or criminal culpability for anything posted on their servers. As long as YouTube has that distinction then they can’t really be sued for anything anyone says or does in the videos.

However, once they start discriminating as to which videos/speech they’ll disallow or which ones they’ll demonetize, they can no longer claim to be a public forum. They have become a publisher, and publishers can be sued and even held criminally accountable for the speech they choose to publish. YouTube does not want this.

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None of this is correct...that is not how 1A application is determined. Internet forums are not the state. The law (which stat # I can't recall) does not hold internet companies liable for what users post - otherwise the internet wouldn't be possible. There's no requirement for "public forum" or non-discrimination in POVs.