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I wouldn’t go so far as to say criminal offense, but when your platform is a monopoly, maybe additional regs would be required. I still think in old-school Internet or even BBS terms - if I run the forum, I can boot you. But that’s where there was a marketplace of forums.

> "Oh but we can't expose details of our ban process for people to game" Bullshit.

Exactly. If that were the reason, they should also make the rules of the platform secret, since making the rules public will result in people "gaming" (aka "acting in accordance with") them.

GDPR contains automated decisionmaking rules: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-22-gdpr/

Why? YouTube has no obligation to host anyone's videos. If these chess channels don't like it they can make their own YouTube.

And business owners should have no obligation to provide fair access to their services, right? They should be able to refuse service for any reason?

So, create your own platform, like Parler tried to do?

If YouTube doesn't like (still hypothetical) laws that regulate it, it can always look to other markets