Key Points
- Rand Paul is leaving YouTube after many of his his COVID videos were flagged for misinformation.
- mRNA vaccine pioneer Dr. Robert Malone was banned from Twitter for speaking his mind.
- Tired of censorship, more conservatives are flocking to platforms like GETTR.
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) has had enough of popular video sharing site YouTube. In an op-ed for the Washington Examiner, Paul announced he will no longer post on the site after receiving two strikes – one in August and September – for violating its COVID misinformation policy.
In the piece My New Year’s resolution: I’m quitting YouTube, Paul admits his relationship with the platform has grown “dysfunctional.”
“Sure, I can get millions of views. But why should I allow anonymous ’fact-checkers’ to censor my fully sourced, fact-based content? They don’t want to challenge or debate me with opposing views, they just want my silence,” Paul writes.
“So today, I announce that I will begin an exodus from Big Tech,” Paul continues. “I will no longer post videos on YouTube unless it is to criticize them or announce that viewers can see my content on rumble.com.”
“Why begin with YouTube? Because they’re the worst censors.”
“Any time I state that cloth masks do not stop the virus from spreading, as in this Denmark study, Florida school comparison, and Vietnamese study, YouTube deletes the video. I always cite studies and scientific sources such as those listed here, but instead of allowing free and open debate with others who might argue flaws in those studies or cite opposing ones, YouTube simply silences me.”
And Paul isn’t the only one dealing with COVID censorship from Big Tech. According to Fox Business, Twitter recently banned mRNA vaccine pioneer Dr. Robert Malone days before appearing on The Joe Rogan Experience to discuss the government’s pandemic response.
The episode was ultimately recorded —but quickly censored and taken down by YouTube. Excerpts can be found online.
According to the Independent, “The now-viral conversation between Mr. Rogan and Dr. Malone saw the latter drawing parallels between current American society and Germany in the 1920s and 1930s, when the Nazis came into power, saying American society is developing a ‘mass formation psychosis.’”
“When you have a society that has become decoupled from each other, and has free-floating anxiety, in a sense that things don’t make sense. We can’t understand it. And then their attention gets focused by a leader or series of events on one small point, just like hypnosis. They literally become hypnotized and can be led anywhere.”
Malone may be banned from Twitter, but he’s on GETTR; a social platform launched by former Trump advisor Jason Miller. Miller created a social media app that is “independent from social media monopolies, independent from cancel culture; [and] embracing [of] free speech.”
Rogan also joined GETTR, encouraging his 7.8 million Twitter followers to join him.
A truly independent platform that embraces free speech and shuns cancel culture?
It’s hard not to see the appeal.
