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YouTube takes down second Rand Paul COVID video and suspends him from
posting for a week
YouTube takes down second Rand Paul COVID video and suspends him from
posting for a week
Emily Brooks
Tue, August 10, 2021, 5:39 PM·2 min read
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Sen. Rand Paul is fuming after YouTube censored the second one of his
videos for violating community guidelines on COVID-19 and suspended him
from posting more videos for a week.
“They are now banning all my speech, including speech that is given on the
Senate floor, which is protected constitutional,” the Kentucky Republican
senator told reporters on Tuesday. “YouTube now thinks they are smart
enough and godly enough that they can oversee speech, even
constitutionally protected speech.”
YouTube last week removed a video of an interview the Kentucky Republican
senator did on Newsmax.
Paul discussed his suspicions about the origins of the coronavirus, his
feud with Anthony Fauci over what funding for research in China’s Wuhan
lab came from the United States, and argued that most face coverings do
not help stop the spread of the virus.
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Paul, an eye doctor, then recorded, and on Aug. 3 uploaded, a second video
chastising YouTube for taking down the video and promoted one of its
competitors, Rumble. He defended his comments on masks.
“Saying cloth masks work, when they don’t, actually risks lives, as
someone may choose to care for a loved one with COVID while only wearing a
cloth mask. This is not only bad advice but also potentially deadly
misinformation,” Paul said in the video.
YouTube responded by taking down that video as well, saying that it
violated YouTube’s community guidelines. On Tuesday, Paul’s office said
that the company imposed a seven-day ban from posting more videos.
YouTube did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
This is not the first time Paul has faced censorship from YouTube. In
2019, the company took down a video that the senator uploaded in which he
mentioned on the Senate floor the name of the alleged whistleblower, whose
concern about former President Donald Trump’s call with the Ukrainian
president led to his first impeachment.
Paul acknowledged that YouTube, as a private company, has a right to ban
them if they want to but said that YouTube is acting as “an arm of the
government without any repercussions or push back.”
“It is really anti-free speech, anti-progress of science, which involves
skepticism and argumentation to arrive at the truth,” Paul said. “YouTube
and Google, though, have become an entity so huge that they think they are
the arbitrator of truth.”
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER
He advocated for using alternatives to YouTube, such as Rumble. “My hope
is that maybe through competition, we’ll prove them to be wrong in their
ways,” Paul said.
posting for a week
YouTube takes down second Rand Paul COVID video and suspends him from
posting for a week
Emily Brooks
Tue, August 10, 2021, 5:39 PM·2 min read
In this article:
Explore the topics mentioned in this article
Sen. Rand Paul is fuming after YouTube censored the second one of his
videos for violating community guidelines on COVID-19 and suspended him
from posting more videos for a week.
“They are now banning all my speech, including speech that is given on the
Senate floor, which is protected constitutional,” the Kentucky Republican
senator told reporters on Tuesday. “YouTube now thinks they are smart
enough and godly enough that they can oversee speech, even
constitutionally protected speech.”
YouTube last week removed a video of an interview the Kentucky Republican
senator did on Newsmax.
Paul discussed his suspicions about the origins of the coronavirus, his
feud with Anthony Fauci over what funding for research in China’s Wuhan
lab came from the United States, and argued that most face coverings do
not help stop the spread of the virus.
INDEPENDENTS COOLING ON BIDEN SPELLS TROUBLE FOR DEMOCRATS IN 2022
Paul, an eye doctor, then recorded, and on Aug. 3 uploaded, a second video
chastising YouTube for taking down the video and promoted one of its
competitors, Rumble. He defended his comments on masks.
“Saying cloth masks work, when they don’t, actually risks lives, as
someone may choose to care for a loved one with COVID while only wearing a
cloth mask. This is not only bad advice but also potentially deadly
misinformation,” Paul said in the video.
YouTube responded by taking down that video as well, saying that it
violated YouTube’s community guidelines. On Tuesday, Paul’s office said
that the company imposed a seven-day ban from posting more videos.
YouTube did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
This is not the first time Paul has faced censorship from YouTube. In
2019, the company took down a video that the senator uploaded in which he
mentioned on the Senate floor the name of the alleged whistleblower, whose
concern about former President Donald Trump’s call with the Ukrainian
president led to his first impeachment.
Paul acknowledged that YouTube, as a private company, has a right to ban
them if they want to but said that YouTube is acting as “an arm of the
government without any repercussions or push back.”
“It is really anti-free speech, anti-progress of science, which involves
skepticism and argumentation to arrive at the truth,” Paul said. “YouTube
and Google, though, have become an entity so huge that they think they are
the arbitrator of truth.”
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER
He advocated for using alternatives to YouTube, such as Rumble. “My hope
is that maybe through competition, we’ll prove them to be wrong in their
ways,” Paul said.
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