TDS was a year earlier, and was focused more on it's thing... versus say more generally on future of general freedom regarding globalism / Left, for which censorship, control, etc are more central. That, plus a whole lot more subs (TDS was primarily a text website rather than operating a video channel on the biggest social media platforms), is what made IW's banning more relavant as an example "first". Regardless, TDS event was notable. And both TDS and IW were preceded by other precedents over the decades that never really made much news [1], in part because alternative social / news media hadn't really developed yet, let alone begun to consider whatever its role should be in covering and defending such events to help strengthen itself as a whole. [1] xs4all was a pretty big one.
selling
You can thank demonetization for needing to resort to that. Bonus is gigamedia with its advert data partners get cut out. Cryptocurrency adoption will eventually reduce the sleaze factor.
it's the principle of it!
When a service calls itself You-Tube and claims to not be Evil, then turns out to be a FuckYou-Tube doing shadowy shit, all speech is speech.