The person you’re responding to is pointing to a common corruption in politics, where politicians can receive money (read:bribes) and then shape their political messaging because of it, usually without much actual difficulty or official scrutiny. They’re not saying that the exclusions are actually valuable to the general public.

Yeah, but that’s only because everyone in Maine keeps getting killed by Stephen King monsters, and those are tracked as accidental deaths.

You could determine this pretty easily by uploading an unlisted video and then checking on an unrelated device that is blocking the domain.

Perhaps less relevant for you on Linux, but for any using Windows, WizTree is a hugely faster alternative to WinDirStat in case that’s a pain point.