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Techno-Hell: YouTube Adopts WHO 'Medical Misinformation' Censorship Regime
By Ben Bartee
August 19, 2023
I’m sorry; did you think you lived in a sovereign country where laws — and yes, norms that underpin laws — are subject to local control?
That’s so 1952.
Here in the Brave New World, unelected bureaucrats at the multinational World Health Organization decide what American citizens are allowed to say in the de facto public square that is YouTube.
Via Reclaim the Net:
YouTube, the titan of online video content, has expanded its Covid misinformation policy to cover what it calls all forms of medical misinformation.
YouTube has also declared its plan to delist videos promoting “cancer treatments proven to be harmful or ineffective,” effectively disallowing content creators from encouraging natural cures.
The platform pledges to implement its medical misinformation policies when a topic exhibits high public health risks, is supposedly prone to misinformation, and when official guidance from health authorities is accessible to the public.
Here are details on the platform’s new plans to police speech under the guise of fighting “medical misinformation,” straight from the horse’s mouth (emphasis added):
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Source: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/benbartee/2023/08/19/techno-hell-youtube-adopts-who-medical-misinformation-censorship-regime-n1720620