On Communist Bandits ( 共匪)

I'm not surprised with censorship inside walled gardens, and neither am I surprised with the sneaky way it is being implemented but I really don't see the motivation why Google/YouTube would want to censor this particular phrase.

Could it be that externally-sourced spam filters were manipulated to include it? There must be more to this story.

If I were the Chief Censor of YouTube I would first of all ban "TikTok."

I don't understand how this could be happening for weeks (at least) and not being reported on, by e.g. the WSJ, who seem like they would be ecstatic to publicise this kind of behavior from Google.