Posted on 04/10/2021 6:17:01 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
This week, YouTube deleted footage of a COVID-19 roundtable discussion between Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) and medical experts from Oxford, Stanford, and Harvard. The doctors and medical experts reportedly disputed Centers for Disease Control (CDC) guidance that children wear masks in school to stop the spread of COVID-19.
Cody McCloud, DeSantis’s press secretary, condemned the move as “another blatant example of Big Tech attempting to silence those who disagree with their woke corporate agenda,” NBC News reported.
“YouTube claimed they removed the video because ‘it contradicts the consensus of local and global health authorities,’ yet this roundtable was led by world-renowned doctors and epidemiologists from Oxford, Stanford, and Harvard, all of whom are eminently qualified to speak on the global health crisis,” McCloud argued. “Good public health policy should include a variety of scientific and technical expertise, and YouTube’s decision to remove this video suppresses productive dialogue of these complex issues.”
The roundtable had been embedded in a WTSB TV’s news story. Jeffrey Tucker, editorial director at the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER), first reported the fact that YouTube had removed it.
Tucker praised DeSantis for taking the lead in rejecting lockdowns. He argued that the governor “became a master of knowledge and erudition on matters of public health and the cell biological issues concerning immunity,” and he praised DeSantis for following the Great Barrington Declaration, which AIER sponsored. He faulted YouTube for its policy on removing “misinformation” that contradicts the CDC and World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines.
“YouTube has clear policies around Covid-19 medical misinformation to support the health and safety of our users,” YouTube spokesperson Elena Hernandez said in a statement. “We removed AIER’s video because it included content that contradicts the consensus of local and global health authorities regarding the efficacy of masks ”
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It should be renamed Commie Tube.
“We’ll be having none of these Covid success stories on our platform!”
“It’s about the fear, stupid! We have to keep the fear going!”
Ping
Are there alternative ways to post video other than YouTube?
Yes. RUMBLE.COM is the Youtube competitor for one.
However, YouTube offers Flat Earth PROVEN By Independent Research. Perhaps local and global health authorities have not yet provided a consensus on this minor issue.
I really want to hear from the medical experts who are making the decisions on who to delete. These people must really, really know what they’re talking about. I wonder how Facebook, Twitter, etc. found these experts and how much they’re paying them. If they know more than medical doctors from the top ivy league schools we need to know what they know.
YOUTube - totalitarian thugs... who woudda guessed it?
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