YouTube != the Internet

YT is currently a most critical piece of the WWW: the informational content and intellectual participation on YT competes with its complement. Those who want to reach a public through video content use YT. Whether you want to find past productions or the latest input from intellectuals, in video form, you go to YT. To lose YT - to use access control over it would be to lose it - would be a most immense damage.

And the perpetrators of such damage should pay.