Of course it doesn't help sway opinion but I can see how it could have triggered someone to act.
Of course it doesn't help sway opinion but I can see how it could have triggered someone to act.
Or don't. Because you're not actually asking helpful questions because you're literally just making this stuff up without ANY factual basis and just injecting your own thoughts into a situation nobody knows anything about currently.
"I wonder if it was because of the recent rules changes made by YouTube", "Wouldn't be surprised if it was because of the recent rule changes YouTube made" and "Do you think this was because of the recent rule changes YouTube made?" are equivalent in what they bring to the discussion. The only difference is you choosing to interpret them differently.
There's a substantial difference between "What motivated this?" and "I wouldn't be surprised if this was motivated by {political reason x}.". You're getting hung up on grammatic structure. "Could it have been motivated by {political reason x}?" has the same problem, even though it's phrased as a question. It's the baseless speculation.