Youtube disabled the search filters to keep the NZ shooting video from spreading, atleast that's the most likely explanation. I think that's understandable but not the best solution really as many who would want to watch the video will find it anyway.Google employee originally answered this to the question about search filters: " this is temporary and part of our efforts to better respond, review and remove graphic, violative content from YouTube. Thanks for your patience while we work through this. Will update this thread when these features are working normally again"https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/2494861?hl=enI've seen much speculation on other reddit posts. Some say that disabling the filters is something that youtube has wanted to do for a longer time. Disabling the option to filter the results by upload date etc would result in a situation where the viewer is not able to watch content they search or want to watch, but instead is forced to watch content that youtube wants them to watch.This obviously is in favour of bigger channels. Smaller channels would have no change. There has been talk about youtube pushing smaller creators out of the platform. This would be a perfect way to do so (even more) and a perfect way to change youtube to be more like prime time tv, as they seem to be doing.What do you think? via /r/youtube
