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Will the filtering of "advertiser unfriendly" language have larger societal implications?

I watch a lot of commentary channels on YouTube. My feed is filled with hot takes on the latest online trends and happenings, often dealing with topics like racism, sexism, abuse, and harassment. More and more, I’ve noticed YouTubers bleeping (or rather muting) words that might be flagged as being “advertiser unfriendly”...

World Community Grid passes 820,000 years of donated computation time towards finding new genetic predictors of cancer (www.worldcommunitygrid.org)

World Community Grid is a volunteer computing project where people can donate their computer’s spare computational power to science (similar to folding@home). This week they announced some results of their research and having passed the 800,000 CPU-year mark which is pretty incredible....

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