Ok I will say: Big tech are a problem. We have seen what happened with Facebook, Whatsapp & Instagram shutting down at the same time because of an error. I don't know if you guys followed Congress this week but the story about algorithms and rabbit holes is definitely something to worry about. Same with Spotify..they are the biggest music streaming app and have most of the power when it comes to how much they pay artists. They have 100 million dollar deals with podcast hosts but don't come anywhere near the rates radio used to have.
In this case YouTube has the power because there are no other popular video sharing platforms...R Kelly agreed to the terms and conditions before using it, so they are not going to be responsible for any damages and with this conviction they have the right to throw people off their platform. There have been content creators who don't make money from ads anymore because of one scandal. So why shouldn't Bert be treated like any other user? His music is still on there, in a way he should feel happy they didn't delete everything.