YouTube, as well as other major Internet companies, have a near-monopoly over their sectors which leaves them lacking any competitive drive to be better, do better, or for people to go elsewhere.

Without realistic alternatives it is spontaneous (even if erroneous) to think about the implication of private infrastructure over public rights. But the real matter is an issue of scale.

I am convinced that sooner or later governments will wake up and that the tech giants will be broken up or severely limited: the European GDPR and the Chinese crackdown on the sector are only the first signs.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/06/five-new-bills-a...

I have no doubt that you are right. But that's a kind of censorship, too, isn't it?

I don’t see how applying existing antitrust regulations would be censorship. But limiting what companies are able to do is a kind of it, sure!