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Why Did YouTube Censor Discussion of Ivermectin?|Bret Weinstein and Lex Fridman
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- christmm 5y agoYouTube is obliged to takedown videos reporting on non vaccine treatments of Covid19, having signed on to the "Trusted News Initiative" https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2020/trusted-news-initiative-vaccine-disinformation https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2020/trusted-news-initiative..."
- LinuxBender 5y agoLooks like TNI is run by the chairman of the BBC. They have a unique and interesting history in this area. [1] I am personally not a fan of censorship and prefer people debate important topics. It feels to me like we could use a modern day equivalent to Radio Caroline [2] [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_banned_by_the_BBC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_banned_by_the_BB... [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Caroline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Caroline
- christmm 5y agohttps://trialsitenews.com/covid-19-censorship-trusted-news-initiative-to-decide-the-facts/ https://trialsitenews.com/covid-19-censorship-trusted-news-i... "The Trusted News Initiative partners will continue to work together to expand our framework and ensure legitimate concerns about future vaccinations are heard, whilst harmful disinformation myths are stopped in their tracks.” The folks at the website Covexit also looked at TNI issues in December. They point out that a stunning aspect of the pandemic has been, “the near simultaneous repression of information, using very similar phrasing, by various media, both social and mainstream” when it comes to COVID-19 news. They also note that since March 2020 there has been a coordinated effort, “to tackle to spread of harmful coronavirus disinformation.”