It may just be the channels I watch on YouTube, but I'm always seeing a really hard lean to the political left particularly in media cooperations
I think frankly that's partisan stuff stirred up by (ironically, easily offended) people who don't really understand how corporations operate. Massive engines of global capitalism don't tend to be "left leaning" by their very nature as the corporate rights lobbying, tax avoiding, shareholder and investment capital beholden beasts they are. What they DO tend to do however is follow what they believe to be public opinion in the interests of profit. It's why it was very difficult to get certain "objectionable" content in western cartoons in the 1990s, because the "soccer moms" in the US were seen as an important demographic they didn't want to turn against them and stop their kids from watching their cartoons, hit their viewing figures and their ad revenue. What's happening now with the internet is similar with more and more websites falling into the hands of these media giants. They freak out that they might draw the wrong kind of attention from the children of the soccer moms who grew up into basically the same thing, and now make the exact same arguments about public morals from the left rather than the right.
The enemy here isn't on one particular side of the political spectrum, it's anyone anywhere on it who thinks other people should have to conduct themselves by
their moral code, which as far as I'm concerned is a totalitarian mindset common to religious extremists and liberal/conservative moral crusaders alike. The corporations are scared of these people because they're scared of losing their business when I think actually, they massively overestimate the amount of business these small groups of freedom of expression hating extremists generate, just as many people personally opposed to them (who tend to do stuff like rant about them on YouTube, perhaps ironically serving to amplify them further) tend to - because they shout the loudest. Really, I think if everyone just told them where to stick it very little would actually happen. There aren't nearly enough of them to
force anyone else to change what they're doing, and certainly not to force huge multinational corporations to do anything.
The decisions these companies take are based on a
perceived threat, not an actual threat. And I think sooner or later these companies will realise that and stop trying to appease these people. It only took Valve about a week to realise that, so there's some hope.
