It turns out that when an organization applies rules arbitrarily, they eventually piss off the wrong person.
The rules need to be published, and if there is room for doubt in them (which there always is), there needs to be a process to raise grievances.
From what I've read other places, there is no one to talk to if you disagree with what YouTube has done, and they don't even tell you why.
(Disclaimer: I witnessed the shooting today, so not quite unbiased)
Once you get past childhood, though, you're a moral agent making choices. If you work at a company, yeah, you are in a small part contributing to their actions and by continuing to work there, assenting to those actions.
After all, a random Googler lunching in the cafeteria wants the prestige associated with all the good things Google does, that's got to come with some measure of blame for the bad things Google does. You can't have it both ways.
Even if it was, as opposed to the individual employees involved, victims can play a role in situations that come to be. Making an observation about this is not victim-blaming, nor does it absolve the aggressor.