YouTube announced it is cracking down on anti-vaccine videos for vaccines “approved by” health authorities. The new policy still has huge loopholes.
Summary
YouTube announced it is banning all content “containing misinformation about vaccines” for all vaccines approved by government health authorities.
- If a video on YouTube claims “commonly used vaccines approved by health authorities are ineffective or dangerous”, that video will be taken down.
- Accounts for anti-vaccine activists Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Joseph Mercola have also been banned.
- Of course, there are exceptions, such as if there is no “pattern of promoting vaccine hesitancy” on a channel, personal testimonials will be allowed.
- The ban comes on the heels of the U.S. Surgeon General issuing a public health advisory for “COVID-19 vaccine misinformation” earlier this year.
- CNN’s report called YouTube’s ban “potentially significant” because it is a primary source for “vaccine information” according to professor Lisa Fazio.
- Washington Post blamed a bunch of YouTube accounts that researchers say have been around for years for the decline in COVID-19 vaccination rate around the world.
- Slate criticized YouTube and its parent company Google for taking too long to ban anti-vaccine content.
- Newsmax and OANN both ran Reuters wire reports on the story.
- Daily Caller highlighted the specifics on how to get around the new ban, saying the online video platform will allow content regarding “vaccine policies, new vaccine trials, and historical vaccine successes or failures.”
- Fox News collated the joyous responses from leftwing journalists when hearing news of YouTube’s ban, including Washington Post columnist and Biden cheerleader Jennifer Rubin.
Author’s Take
This is absolutely [CENSORED]*
*Not actually censored. Done intentionally to prove a point.
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© Dallas Gerber, 2021
