Posted on 11/20/2020 7:13:04 PM PST by xomething
The offending video was nothing more than an audio presentation of comments made originally by Dr. Roger Hodkinson, a distinguished medical doctor and medical director of Western Medical Assessments. Hodkinson is the former chairman of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada Examination Committee and Pathology in Ottawa.
November 20, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – YouTube has removed from LifeSite’s channel a video containing audio of a well-respected doctor discussing the uselessness of masks and widespread public hysteria over the coronavirus, calling it “medical misinformation.”
LifeSiteNews is now unable to upload any new videos for a week.
The offending video was nothing more than an audio presentation of comments made originally by Dr. Roger Hodkinson, a distinguished medical doctor and medical director of Western Medical Assessments. Hodkinson is the former chairman of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada Examination Committee and Pathology in Ottawa.
Dr. Hodkinson gave the comments at a public city meeting in Canada last week, and slated the state imposed lockdowns, which are supposedly to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
He stated, “There is utterly unfounded public hysteria driven by the media and politicians. It’s outrageous. This is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on an unsuspecting public. There is absolutely nothing that can be done to contain this virus.”
“Masks are utterly useless. There is no evidence base for their effectiveness whatsoever. Paper masks and fabric masks are simply virtue-signalling. They’re not even worn effectively most of the time,” said Hodkinson.
LifeSite’s video of Hodkinson’s words was taken down almost immediately, and YouTube stated that the video had violated its policy of “medical misinformation.” YouTube stated that such a violation goes against its “community guidelines.”
However, Dr. Hodkinson prefaced his comments with his own credentials, precisely to prevent people from disregarding his words as misinformation.
The doctor explained, “I’m a medical specialist in pathology which includes virology. I trained at Cambridge University in the U.K. I’m the ex-president of the pathology section of the Medical Association. I was previously an assistant professor in the Faculty of Medicine doing a lot of teaching. I was the chairman of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada Examination Committee and Pathology in Ottawa, but more to the point I’m currently the chairman of a biotechnology company in North Carolina selling the COVID-19 test.”
Two days before, on November 18, the video platform had flagged another of LifeSite’s videos, The Mother Miriam Show. Despite being titled as “Catholic Christmas traditions to instill faith in your kids,” that video also received a warning of “medical misinformation.” YouTube then removed the video.
With the warning on November 18, and today’s strike, LifeSite has now been banned from uploading any videos by YouTube for a week.
Deleting the video does not remove the strike, and if YouTube deems that LifeSite has incurred three strikes within a 90-day period, this would result in the permanent removal of our channel, which has over 200,000 subscribers.
The video, which is embedded above, can be found on LifeSite’s Rumble account here.
aye
Everyone choose a side.
LifeSiteNews has done more good than you have.
Well apparently some little twirp was offended....doesn’t take much for those kids to get their little panties in knots. They actually make snowflakes look un-meltable.
So YouTube knows more than a doctor.
This is disgusting.
Rumble needs to kick it up a lot of notches.....selections are so limited.
Bitchute
Let me tell you how I use You Tube. I use an ad blocker. And if I happen to see an ad, I ignore it and if I can’t ignore it, I intentionally do NOT purchase anything from the advertiser.
Do you have a Rumble link, for this vid? Thanks.
I think their (Rumble) search stinks! I can’t ever find anything I’m trying to find :- /
There’s a lack of conservative systems administrators. Employers were against hiring American men with experience in UNIX variants in the ‘90s and since. They preferred hiring young women and Middle Eastern immigrants instead.
Wow they must have posted a serious truth detrimental to the libtard snowflake worldview.
The war on free speech has gone nuclear.
This bears repeating!
Anyone with a big social media footprint, one word of advice. Always have a fall-back platform. Yes, keep posting in hostile territory (F-book, Twaddle, You-Screwb, etc.) but have content in place for when you get deplatformed. Because you will be deplatformed if they don’t like your message.
The left is going full Stalin.
Soon it will be time to go full Patton on them.
COVID19 is joined at the hip to the Great Reset. One world government. You tube will ding anyone, no matter how distinguished. No Freedom of Speech after how many years?
They don’t but the first thing you see when you create a Parler account is a list of suggested accounts to follow, which includes names like Sean Hannity, Dan Bongino, Joe Pags, etc. Same with Rumble. I’m sure much of that has to do with the fact that most Libs wouldn’t be caught dead using those platforms, but that further proves my point. They are a safe haven for conservative ideology, and that’s about it. We need to be where the left is, and that’s not Parler or Rumble. A service like Twitter or Parler that stays politically neutral (so as to not ideologically alienate anyone) while also promoting and supporting free speech would be ideal.
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