Posted on 08/02/2021 7:59:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In one of the most outrageous instances of internet censorship, YouTube has suppressed Australian news giant SkyNews for a week, based on its reports about hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin.
The London Telegraph has the first report here:
Sky News Australia has been banned for a week from uploading videos to Youtube after it was accused of spreading misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic.
The Sky News Australia channel on YouTube received a "strike" over "numerous" video clips, including "content that denies the existence of Covid-19," the video platform said.
SkyNews has explicitly denied that it ever claimed that COVID does not exist, according to this Washington Post report just out. Here's what it probably was really about:
These include featuring some right-wing personalities that discourage viewers from taking the coronavirus threat seriously.
The rest of the beef comes to this, emphasis mine:
Australian media reported that the one-week suspension came after a review of Sky News Australia content that denied the existence of Covid-19 or encouraged people to use hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin to treat the coronavirus. A YouTube spokesman told the Guardian that the video clips on hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin would have been allowed if "sufficient countervailing context" had been provided by the uploader.
They added that "we don’t allow content that denies the existence of Covid-19."
This is an amazingly heavy hand of censorship of bona fide news, given that YouTube is a near-monopoly.
And it's wrong on at least two levels. One, even if the network was wrong (a big 'if'), the censorship would be wrong, too. In a free society, news agencies sink or swim based on the accuracy of their information. To shut them down on a false claim of denying COVID, or for reporting on the benefits of hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, serves zero useful purpose.
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Pingaroo!
Because Pfizer has paid them to do this.
BTW, YouTube’s disgusting bottom note that it will permit some reporting on ivermectin and HCQ provided the news reports include skeptical notes from officials, is even more appalling.
Who the heck are they to tell reporters how to structure what is important to include in a story? Is that a free press?
They seem to think they’ve got a monopoly on truth when in reality they have a monopoly on power.
BTW, YouTube’s disgusting bottom note that it will permit some reporting on ivermectin and HCQ provided the news reports include skeptical notes from officials, is even more appalling.
Who the heck are they to tell reporters how to structure what is important to include in a story? Is that a free press?
They seem to think they’ve got a monopoly on truth when in reality they have a monopoly on power.
Youtube is essentially Google (Alphabet Corp)
Censorship destroys trust.
Why are they even asking these “why” questions anymore?
The government is working closely with youtube and the other propaganda machines to suppress thoughts and words. It is just as unconstitutional to do it by proxy as in person. The government has broken the law royally, as have the social media.
Biggest disappointment: that so few people are outraged over it.
Thank You for saying that. The conservative media obsession with asking “why” is annoying, along them pointing out every time a Democrat is being a hypocrite. At this rate, by 2030 Conservatives will be sitting in a gulag gleefully pointing out how leftists don’t do what they say.
I have an friend who got covid. Started with fatigue and fever and then flu like symptoms. On the third day he went to the emergency room and tested positive. The gave him the whole gambit of drugs, hydrochloroquine, zpac, ivermectin and several others. A little over 24 hours later he was back to normal. He is over 60 and not in great health, but not sickly ether.
It is criminal to prevent treatment with these products.
My son (36) healthy as an ox was EXTREMELY sick last week, 102 fever. Started on ivermectin and saw almost immediate improvement and was well in a few days.
Same results with a friend of his a couple weeks ago.
It’s simple. If it can be shown that COVID can be treated easily, then there is no longer an emergency pandemic.
RE: My son (36) healthy as an ox was EXTREMELY sick last week, 102 fever
OK, was it Covid? Or some other disease?
But I am thankful your son is well. Take care.
Absolutely, The symptoms and the cause have been well established for years now, so we need to move on to concentrating all efforts and discussion on the solution. Far too much time and effort wasted asking and discussing questions we already know the answers to. It is a perpetual distraction.
RE: A little over 24 hours later he was back to normal. He is over 60 and not in great health, but not sickly ether.
Skeptics do not consider this as anything but ANECDOTAL (in fact you will read and hear that word being thrown about all the time ).
Because the only people who think they do anything also post here?
Because they have investments in vaccines, would be my guess.
Slowly he truth is unfolding and coming out, the vaccines are killing people. Is it by design or was an honest mistake made by the ones who concocted these quick produced vaccines? I am leaning towards the former
That’s a rhetorical question. No need to answer it.
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