YouTube Is Banning Coronavirus Content That Contradicts The World Health Organization
By
Arjun Walia
Arjun Walia
In Brief
- The Facts:YouTube is now actively banning any content that contradicts anything that the World Health Organization (WHO) with regards to the new coronavirus.
- Reflect On:Should people have the right to access information openly and freely and decide for themselves what is real and what is fake? Should people be able to examine sources and evidence for themselves and make their own decisions on information?
I’ve
said it before and I’ll say it again, we are now living in a time where
a digital authoritarian ‘fact
checker’ is patrolling the internet and
censoring content it deems as ‘false.’ Regardless if the content is
simply a shared opinion by experts in the field or if the content is
backed by credible sources, information and evidence, it is still being
censored and removed by YouTube as well as other platforms on the
internet like Facebook and Vimeo. Should people not have the right to
examine information, check sources, and determine and decide for
themselves what is real and what is fake?
It seems that any type of information
that threatens political/government, corporate and other elitist agendas
is heavily targeted. We here at Collective Evolution have experienced
this for quite some time now. YouTube has demonetized us, and “Fact
Checkers” have been all over our content, giving multiple articles
‘false’ ratings and thus limiting our page distribution and reputation
on Facebook eternally. Some of these fact checkers, as well as Facebook,
won’t reply to us or engage in conversation. In many cases they refuse
to budge and strong-arm you into accepting their point of view. They
have no tolerance for discussion, and are quite compliant in punishing
alternative media outlets. This is exactly why we are concerned
that our Facebook Page will be deleted, so we are encouraging all those
who want to continue to receive and be able to find our content to sign up for our email list.
You have to ask yourself, why is Julian Assange
in Jail? Why is Edward Snowden in exile? And why is there so much
censorship of information on the internet and why are independent media
organizations, like Collective Evolution, being censored and
demonetized? What’s really going on here?
When it comes to the new coronavirus,
opinions are being flagged as false news as well. Dr. Ron Paul has
received multiple “Fake News” strikes for sharing his opinions about the coronavirus, suggesting what Edward Snowden did,
that ‘the powers that be’ are using this outbreak to impose more
authoritarian measures upon the citizenry. Is this not an infringement
on freedom of speech rights?
YouTube recently announced that they
will ban any coronavirus-related content that directly contradicts World
Health Organization advice. According to the BBC,
“The Google-owned service says it will remove anything it deems
medically unsubstantiated.” Chief executive Susan Wojcicki said the
media giant wanted to stamp out “misinformation on the platform.”.
Herin lies the problem, whatever they
determine to be “medically unsubstantiated” is not debatable, despite
the actual fact that many times, it is. The point is, they don’t give
you that opportunity. Shouldn’t information be allowed to circulate
openly and freely without the intervention of a ‘fact checker’ who has
the power and the ability to get rid of it and decide for the people
what is real, and what is fake? What is true, and what is not true? What
is worth a read or a listen, and what is not worth a read or a listen?
Should that not be an individual choice?
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All of these censorship measures, which
continue to ramp up reflect George Orwell’s “Ministry of Truth” that he
wrote about in his novel “1984.” Anybody who opposes the guidelines and
information handed down from certain organizations, like the World
Health Organization in this case, may come into contact or be punished
by the “thought police.”
We are living in crazy times, but it’s
exciting. At the end of the day, all of the censorship, banning and
deleting of information by multiple internet platforms like Facebook and
YouTube have only served the collective and brought more attention to
much of the information that’s being banned. These platforms will use
ridicule, and words like “conspiracy theory” to justify their actions
instead of actually addressing information and countering the evidence
that’s used to explain it. That being said, it’s not like there is not
false news out there that spreads around that people believe, but there
is a lot of very real information out there that is being hidden as much
as possible from the public eye.
One of the most recent examples actually
deals with the World Health Organization. A documentary called
“trustWHO” explores the influence that the pharmaceutical industry,
among others, has on the World Health Organization. It was recently
banned by Vimeo. The documentary has been fact-checked and approved by
lawyers, experts in the medical field and even by key executives of the
WHO itself. The documentary simply investigated how efficiency and
transparency of the WHO are undermined by corporate influences. You can
read more about that here.
I also recently published a piece about Wikileaks regarding recent posts they made pertaining to documents they
released nearly a decade ago . The documents highlight the influence
that pharmaceutical companies have on health policy set by the World
Health Organization (WHO).
Human consciousness is changing, it’s shifting, and events like
COVID-19 help facilitate this shift by changing the way people see our
world and what’s really going on here. These events encourage more and
more people ask questions, and not simply accept whatever we are told to
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