Gosh, I think I'll have to fill a complaint for Youtube's practice of silently deleting perfectly-civil comments.
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@vekkq They could have disabled them completely, as this would solve the legal troubles of hosting user-generated forbidden information, and there's no law mandating them to host any comments whatsoever. But users like comments, so they settled for a middle ground while keeping their expenses on moderation low.
@L29Ah comments help them with engagement for their ad business. it is a social network, but with heavy restrictions.
youtube could nuke all their social network aspects of it and watch it walking off to another site, over which they have no control. arguably, that is a financial loss and wont happen.
youtube is by eu dma standards a gatekeeper and has to follow additional rules. i would at least assume that youtube blocking all links in comments breaks one specific dma rule. arbitrary blocking of information exchange may break another.
it aint much, but writing a single email to the regulatory body may be a little step in the right direction.