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YouTube censors epidemiologist Knut Wittkowski for opposing lockdown
New York Post ^ | 05/16/2020 | Jon Levine

Posted on 05/22/2020 8:29:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Big Tech companies are aggressively tamping down on COVID-19 “misinformation” — opinions and ideas contrary to official pronouncements.

Dr. Knut M. Wittkowski, former head of biostatistics, epidemiology and research design at Rockefeller University, says YouTube removed a video of him talking about the virus that had racked up more than 1.3 million views.

Wittkowski, 65, is a ferocious critic of the nation’s current steps to fight the coronavirus. He has derided social distancing, saying it only prolongs the virus’ existence, and has attacked the current lockdown as mostly unnecessary.

Wittkowski, who holds two doctorates in computer science and medical biometry, believes the coronavirus should be allowed to create “herd immunity,” and that short of a vaccine, the pandemic will only end after it has sufficiently spread through the population.

“With all respiratory diseases, the only thing that stops the disease is herd immunity. About 80% of people need to have had contact with the virus, and the majority of them won’t even have recognized that they were infected,” he says in the now-deleted video.

“I was just explaining what we had,” Wittkowski told The Post of the video, saying he had no idea why it was removed. The footage was produced by the British film company Journeyman Pictures.

“They don’t tell you. They just say it violates our community standards. There’s no explanation for what those standards are or what standards it violated.”

In articles and interviews across the web, he has likened COVID-19 to a “bad flu.” That likely made him a target for YouTube, which said in April it would be “removing information that is problematic” about the pandemic.

“Anything that goes against WHO recommendations would be a violation of our policy and so removal is another really important part of our policy,” CEO Susan Wojcicki told CNN.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: censor; coronavirus; internet; knutwittkowski; technotyranny; youtube
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1 posted on 05/22/2020 8:29:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Dr. Knut Wittkowsk


2 posted on 05/22/2020 8:30:55 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: SeekAndFind

Never let the truth get in the way of the agenda.


3 posted on 05/22/2020 8:32:25 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: SeekAndFind

YouTube, Facebook, Google, etc. are all carrying out their plandemic assignments to the tee.
I’m not a big fan of government regulations, but they’ve become way too big and too important to the information age, therefore they should be regulated as public utilities.


4 posted on 05/22/2020 8:40:57 PM PDT by lgjhn23 (Libs are a virus.....the DemoVirus!!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m in a state with a Democrat Governor (not California) who shut down an important covid-19 survey.

https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/nevada/complaint-led-state-to-halt-las-vegas-clinics-covid-19-antibody-tests-2007324/

This seems to me like pretty strong evidence our government is deliberately hiding the real data about covid-19.

Maybe I should say instead “preventing anyone outside NIH, FDA, and government-controlled entities from investigating and finding the truth”.

I also have a feeling that Sahara West Urgent Care and Wellness, which began using the rapid virus test to screen for COVID-19 as well as another test for the antibodies developed after a person has been ill with the new coronavirus is probably far more technically qualified to evaluate the tests than the government bureaucrats that halted their effort.

I also note that this Las Vegas clinics test was patterned after the Stanford University tests in Santa Clara County

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/04/18/california-study-on-antibodies-signals-covid-19-infections-could-be-more-prevalent-than-first-believed-910099

I observe that the FDA has frequently downplayed the Stanford effort, with almost all negative reactions to it’s importance. That gives me considerable concern about the fundamental motives of our CDC, FDA, and related government bureaucracy.

And finally, this one, from a doctor who is knee deep in actually treating patients and managing this “pandemic” on the front lines, who is being deliberately discredited by the bureaucracy and several of his videos been banned on YouTube. It appears to me that the political powers that be work very hard to keep us all in pandemic panic mode.

https://youtu.be/93QGMEERgMk


5 posted on 05/22/2020 8:58:44 PM PDT by Grandpa Drudge (Just an old man, desperate to preserve our great country for my grandchildren.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Is YouTube now going to shutdown Dr. Fauci since he just warned about the effects of the lockdown?


6 posted on 05/22/2020 9:02:07 PM PDT by G Larry (The People must shutdown the tyrants.)
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To: SeekAndFind; All

In political campaigns while the use of Social Electronic Formats are useful in presenting political positions. Relying solely on using those venues is a mistake because of their SEF content limitations and media bias .

Consideration of the use of reprinted material including handouts and flyers such as of articles in FR and the planning of area saturation distribution known as “blitzing” in the targeted area is essential of one wants to win.

political campaigns while the use of Social Electronic Formats are useful in presenting political positions. Relying solely on using those venues is a mistake because of their SEF content limitations and bias .Comsideration of the use of printed material and the planning of area saturation distribution known as “blitzing” in the targeted area is essential of one wants to win.


7 posted on 05/22/2020 9:16:27 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin posting here for the record hoping somebody might read and pass around)
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To: Fungi

In political campaigns while the use of Social Electronic Formats are useful in presenting political positions. Relying solely on using those venues is a mistake because of their SEF content limitations and media bias .

Consideration of the use of reprinted material including handouts and flyers such as of articles in FR and the planning of area saturation distribution known as “blitzing” in the targeted area is essential of one wants to win.

political campaigns while the use of Social Electronic Formats are useful in presenting political positions. Relying solely on using those venues is a mistake because of their SEF content limitations and bias .Comsideration of the use of printed material and the planning of area saturation distribution known as “blitzing” in the targeted area is essential of one wants to win.


8 posted on 05/22/2020 9:18:43 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin posting here for the record hoping somebody might read and pass around)
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To: mosesdapoet
Can you repost that in the common English vernacular? I have no idea what you are saying.
9 posted on 05/22/2020 9:22:35 PM PDT by Fungi
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10 posted on 05/22/2020 9:37:36 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin posting here for the record hoping somebody might read and pass around)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bit Chute doesn’t censor except for porn and threats of harm.


11 posted on 05/22/2020 9:38:21 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: mosesdapoet

Fail....fail....fai...fa....f.....


12 posted on 05/22/2020 9:41:28 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: SeekAndFind

Here is what comes up for this guy on the site reposting censored and banned YouTube videos:
https://www.altcensored.com/search?q=Wittkowski


13 posted on 05/22/2020 10:30:27 PM PDT by Mozilla (Truth Is Stranger than Fiction)
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To: Mozilla
PERSPECTIVES ON THE PANDEMIC | PROFESSOR KNUT WITTKOWSKI INTERVIEW | EPISODE 2
https://www.bitchute.com/video/dZYeHylHukL9/
14 posted on 05/22/2020 10:34:50 PM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: Steve Van Doorn

22 May: Conservative Review: The CDC confirms remarkably low coronavirus death rate. Where is the media?
by Daniel Horowitz
Most people are more likely to wind up six feet under because of almost anything else under the sun other than COVID-19.

We destroyed our entire country and suspended democracy all for a lie, and these people perpetrated the unscientific degree of panic. Will they ever admit the grave consequences of their error?
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15 posted on 05/22/2020 11:16:58 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: SeekAndFind; All

Thanks for posting. CONTROL INFO. HOORAY Alt Right. DELETE the CONTROL press/platforms from your life anytime you can verify that you’re being lied to...deceived. Examine.

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16 posted on 05/22/2020 11:33:40 PM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Censorship and Gestapo tactics, what is the difference?
Rhetorical question, I know.

But yeah, there are pundits out there that assert that YouTube is ‘ready to stop censoring, wait for it, so much. Wait, so YouTube is going to ease up on censorship and censoring....just ease up a bit? Really?! How about STOP CENSORING and CENSORSHIP, PERIOD, kkthx?!?!?!?!?!


17 posted on 05/23/2020 12:12:16 AM PDT by cranked
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To: fella
Bit Chute doesn’t censor except for porn and threats of harm.

Does BitChute have an app that can be downloaded on to most streaming devices such as smart phones and smart TVs? I honestly don't know.

Gab tried to be a censorship-free version of Twitter and the tech giants blocked Gab's app from their stores, drastically hobbling their ability to be competitive.

18 posted on 05/23/2020 12:42:16 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: Drew68

hard to find Amazing Polly’s youtube page these days, but she is on bitchute:

16 May: Bitchute: BARDA Whistle blower Links to Health Mafia
Amazing Polly
I look at Patrick Vallance & the UK’s formerly secret Science Advisory panel which leads me to more Global Healh Mafia connections... and a connection back to the current self-described ‘whistleblower’(RICK BRIGHT). Turns out they are all vaccine pushers, of course
https://www.bitchute.com/video/DMm2XkbWfKg/


19 posted on 05/23/2020 2:23:10 AM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: MAGAthon
Death rate is over all 0.004 which is twice that of the flu. Given the "liberal count" of deaths is likely far less then that.
Thank you very much
20 posted on 05/23/2020 9:08:03 AM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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