A: About 8 months.
Sure this joke is an exaggeration, but occurrences like this seem to be getting more common. Sometimes it's much longer than 8 months. The informed reader can fill in the blanks.
One very big problem is YT and other content providers intentionally provide recommendations to reinforce confirmation biases of the viewer. If you click a few wacky conspiracy videos you will start seeing more in your feed. If you click fact and logic based alternate videos, you will start seeing confirmations of this particular view point, but no factual/logical discussions from opposing viewpoints. What's worse, inevitably you will start seeing references to censorship in your favorite topics. This feels very much like a political agenda on the part of big tech content providers.
In any event it is clear the algorithm is not interested in healthy reasonable discussion and debate to further democracy.
The censors only get really active for things that could plausibly be true or things that are absolutely true but inconvenient to the people who control the censorship office.
Obviously they aren’t.
But in this scenario, what if they were and you were part of the useful idiots covering up for someone? You would be the bad guy directly hurting society… so instead, how about a free marketplace of thoughts and opinions and allow the “orthodoxy” to be organic even if it might slightly be flawed on average (to the example we land on “no vaccines aren’t bad, but we have a lot more required testing and liability just incase”).
What makes your pet theories better than anyone else’s? Why “can’t” you be wrong?
Be wary of the "divide and conquer" strategy when it is being used by oppressive regimes and various governments.