content: To limit what google/alphabet feels is unsanctioned citizen investigations.  They've taken the initiative to clamp down on enabling those pesky conspiracy theorists.  If you checked out videos from Vegas shooting, there were a few that used Google Earth to establish the possibility of multiple shooters.  Allowing their web tools to be used in this unsanctioned manner won't happen again on their watch. Which raises the question: the fuck is the point of google, google maps, and youtube if google/alphabet won't let anyone use those services anymore for anything but cat videos and a rippoff yelp/mapquest clone?