The purge is definitely real, pretty much every channel I followed on youtube is banned now or has two strikes, aside from a few non political/non conspiracy type channels I like.
Google practically became a government entity during the Obama administration, visiting the WH at least 427 times and there was a revolving employment door between the two.
So to say they're just a private company who can silence the opposing viewpoints of whoever they like is not right.
I also saw earlier that google and bing are censoring firearms related terms from the "shopping/shop" tabs of their search, quite blatantly for the broadest terms. I uploaded some screenshots with links here:
I'm not sure if firearms is all they're censoring there, probably not I assume. After all the drama on Facebook and Twitter, Youtube, Google and a host of other places, it's definitely safe to say things are accelerating quickly.
*edited typo
RE: No Free Speech on YouTube - Both Channels Hit with Strikes & Cannot Upload W/ Proof of Fraud