Policies change because
If censorship is possible, it will happen if it has not already. That’s a given.
Someone will upload something so bad or very illegal, they’ll censor before getting a request from law
Discussion
The kind of censorship I am concerned with is the political kind - shutting down content that goes against their narrative. YouTube is at that stage where they just censor whenever they receive the phone call.
You would think X is not but that's a joke becaus they consistently and without qualm censor all US and Israeli war crime footage, of which there is a LOT.