It comes with the territory if we want Google to be able to censor hate speech and misinformation.
You can always use a competing site, or build your own.
If Google loses a YouTube creator, it has almost no impact on their bottom line.
If a creator gets kicked out however, their livelihood is threatened.
I would argue this is the perfect scenario for a creator's union (of course, it should use some other platform to communicate).
No. There are numerous providers that can host your videos. For a small fee. This mentality is what gives Google such pseudo-power.
Do the alternatives hold up in terms of things like market reach, $ performance, and not banning the same users?
This is myth I want to dispell.
Now to answer your question. Yes, it will be tough and disruptive should you start distributing your content through other alternatives if you were using youtube as your only vehicle. But similar issues were faced by other content creators such as musicians, journalists when the streaming era started disrupting their vehicles. They adapted. Don't see why video content creators shouldn't be able to find the same flexibility and continue to thrive. Youtube by itself with no content does not have anything to sell.
Infact, relying only on a single platform can be dangerous for creators since we've seen some of them being booted off by AI. No human explanations.
Audience, traffic, monetization, reach are all market problems. They will exist whether Youtube is there or not.
Such a desire to shield mega-corporations from any moral culpability since they think it serves their personal sensibilities. Very naive.
What many do not realize is the 'build your own' is going on (I can name at least 4 YT replacements, some better than others). But they are dismissing them with the same reasons they are kicking the creators off the 'mainstream' sites. So you see a lot of YT refugees and many existing YT creators 'splitting the difference' basically they upload it to both YT and several other sites. There is almost zero downside in doing so really.
Eventually someone will click it all together in the right way and create a decentralized uncensorable thing. At that point the internet will become a lot more like 4chan.
The old adage is 'the internet sees censorship as damage and routes around it'. It just does not happen overnight though.