This is not about free speech. In this case YouTube has the free speech rights to publish whatever they want or not to publish whatever they want
But we can show our disapproval of the bad quality offered by this corporate silo platform own by a surveillance company that sells our data to globally. If this dumb decision is not revoked, I will move as much viewing as I can to other platforms.
This kind of incidents is a good reason to move away from monopolistic corporate platforms to open decentralized platforms such as PeerTube.