YouTube Bans All ‘Harmful Vaccine Content’
Google-owned YouTube said on September 29th that it will ban all “harmful vaccine content” from its platform, including claims that vaccines are ineffective at reducing transmission of disease, prompting concerns that the firm will escalate censorship of dissenting viewpoints.
“We’ve steadily seen false claims about the coronavirus vaccines spill over into misinformation about vaccines in general, and we’re now at a point where it’s more important than ever to expand the work we started with COVID-19 to other vaccines,” YouTube wrote in a blog post.
So far, the Bay Area-based company said it has removed 130,000 videos for violating its policies that it claims were created in tandem with various “experts” to deal with alleged “COVID-19 and medical misinformation.”
Now it removes content that claims “approved vaccines are dangerous and cause chronic health effects, claims that vaccines do not reduce transmission or contraction of disease, or contains misinformation on the substances contained in vaccines,” YouTube stated on its blog, saying that its policy will now apply to content that questions the efficacy of all vaccines, not just those for COVID-19.
“These policy changes will go into effect today, and as with any significant update, it will take time for our systems to fully ramp up enforcement,” the company wrote. “Personal testimonials relating to vaccines will also be allowed, so long as the video doesn’t violate other Community Guidelines, or the channel doesn’t show a pattern of promoting vaccine hesitancy.”
A spokesperson for the company confirmed to news outlets that accounts operated by Joseph Mercola and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who have frequently raised questions about vaccines over the years, were banned from the platform.
Russian state-backed broadcaster RT’s German-language channels were also deleted from YouTube, the broadcaster announced. YouTube told Reuters that the channels violated its COVID-19 policies, while Russian officials threatened to block YouTube.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, said the YouTube ban on RT’s channel may have broken Russian law.
“In fact, it has been broken very brazenly,” he told reporters on Sept. 29. “Because of this, it is a case of censorship, and of obstructing the dissemination of information by the media, and so on.”
Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter were criticized months ago for blocking articles about whether COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP virus, may have originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China.
Facebook in May confirmed it ended its ban on content that suggests COVID-19 emerged from the laboratory, coming as President Joe Biden announced he ordered an inquiry into theories about the origins of the CCP virus.
YouTube officials didn’t immediately respond to a request by The Epoch Times for comment.
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richard
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So they are now a propaganda tool for the government and pharma industries.
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Geraint Hughes
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Dont use you tube, use alternatives. Faker-tube is the past.
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Carbon Bigfoot
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Cover your positions with shorts, puts or better unload the stock. Google ( Alphabet ) will be a non-existing entity in short order. Numerous sources just sayin.
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A Reasonable Man
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Perhaps some of thePSI members can post some of the best alternatives to You tube etc that have emerged; as well as search engines that actually “search” for real scientific research. I currently use Duck Duck. Google (And most other ones)is just a total joke now , has been for awhile causing a real crisis for the future of freedom and free nations around the world, Thanks
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Joseph Olson
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too bad the FDA WILL NOT BAN HARMFUL VACCINE CONTENT, like polyethylene glycol, ethylene dioxide, heavy metals, parasites, pathogens and fetal tissue.
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Duncan J MacCrimmon
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Well said, as you so usually do, Joseph.
Keep on post’n,
djm
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A Reasonable Man
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Tyranny’s really accelerating now: on top of draconian vac mandates add government now monitoring your transactions over $600, gov ‘t asking for mandate that Google hand over”your discussions against say critical race theory “for school board meetings . Really crazy stuff , what the F ! Pardon me but this is nuts
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Joseph Olson
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DOJ is protecting the NEA from hurty word insurrection
by PTA room moms and Cub Scout den mothers
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Tibor
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Yet EXPLOSIVE VIDEO Emerges of Fauci and HHS Officials Plotting for ‘A New Avian Flu Virus’ to Enforce Universal Flu Vaccination (VIDEO)
Alex Jones highlighted three clips from the hour-long video of the summit from C-SPAN which proved the COVID-19 pandemic was planned and the Big Pharma worked with the UN and other corrupt government officials to develop and release the COVID-19 virus ahead of ‘Great Reset’.
The first clip featured Michael Specter, a journalist from The New Yorker and also an adjunct professor of bioengineering at Stanford University, Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Rick Bright, the director of HHS Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA).
In this video, they conceptualized having a new outbreak of novel avian flu virus from China so they can bypass the method of FDA approval and enforce mRNA vaccine to the masses.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/10/explosive-video-emerges-fauci-hhs-officials-plotting-new-avian-flu-virus-enforce-universal-flu-vaccination-video/
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Reg
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So Russia wants freedom and the US wants censorship ? Maybe if I take the vaccine it’ll help me understand this new reality ?
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A Reasonable Man
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That’s a good one Joseph! 👍👍
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Tom
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So typical of google and others to ban the truth. I already know the truth and do not need any u-tube videos. There are many other sites to find the truth. An anti-vaxxer 100% all the way!
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very old white guy
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I guess that means they will have to ban the vaccines.
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