Internet Censorship and Privacy. What is going on?

Privacy policy has been changing since the mass usage of internet became a part of our life.
Nobody wants their private information to be leaked. The size of internet community and "internet is a forever archive" terrifies people and make them concern.

Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal.

This data gathering was a major scandal in early 2018 where Cambridge Analytica harvested the personal data of millions of people's Facebook profiles without their consent and used it for political advertising. It has been described as a watershed moment in the public understanding of personal data and precipitated a 17% fall in Facebook's share price and calls for tighter regulation of tech companies' use of personal data

Data scientist, Aleksandr Kogan developed an app called "This Is Your Digital Life". He provided the app to Cambridge Analytica, and they arranged an informed consent process for research where several hundred thousand Facebook users would agree to pass a survey for payment that was only for academic usage. However, Facebook allowed this app not only to gather personal information from survey participants but also from their Facebook friends. In this way Cambridge Analytica collected data from millions of Facebook users.

More than $100 billion was knocked off Facebook's market capitalization in days and politicians in the US and UK demanded answers from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The scandal eventually led to him agreeing to testify in front of the United States Congress

Censorship on YouTube

We all love internet for freedom it gives us. You can watch and write whatever comes up to your mind. While it's quite hard to find illegal content on this website, it was always considered as a place for freedom of speech. However, things have been changed in 2017 when demonetization forced channels to avoid sensitive topics. 

In March 2017, a number of major advertisers and prominent companies began to pull their advertising campaigns from YouTube, over concerns that their ads were appearing on objectionable and/or extremist content, in what the YouTube community began referring to as a 'boycott'. PewDiePie described these boycotts as an "adpocalypse", noting that his video profit had fallen to the point that he was generating more income from YouTube Red subscription profit sharing than advertising.

In June 2019, YouTube updated its hate speech policy to prohibit hateful and supremacist work, to limit the spread of violent extremist content online. This content includes that justify discrimination, segregation or exclusion based on qualities like age, gender, race, caste, religion, sexual orientation or veteran status.

It wouldn't be that bad if most of above listed changed have been worked perfectly. In reality, under good intentions disguise YouTube 'caused real damage to edgy channels. "Black guy in the video - Mr. demonetization" typo memes are the decent prove that something has gone wrong with such censorship policy.