YouTube reportedly suspended Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson for one week after he posted a video about COVID-19.
“We removed the video in accordance with our COVID-19 medical misinformation policies, which don’t allow content that encourages people to use Hydroxychloroquine or Ivermectin to treat or prevent the virus,” a YouTube spokesperson said in a statement, according to NBC News.
The suspension fell under YouTube’s “COVID-19 medical misinformation policy.”
Johnson told The Federalist, “It always baffled me that there was such a concerted effort to deny the American public the type of robust exploration research into early treatment early in this pandemic,” noting that “both Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin” are considered safe treatments for the disease.
It’s no longer former President Donald Trump taking a beating from YouTube and other social media providers. Senators, religious leaders and a wide variety or almost universally conservative Americans continue to find themselves banned from social media.
The question is why social media providers continue to target conservatives? Shouldn’t social media be non-partisan? While that would ideally be the case, the evidence reveals some much different.
Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and other providers seem to go out of their way to suspend and ban information related to criticizing COVID-19, speaking about the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riots, questioning the 2020 election and other controversial issues.
However, when it comes to issues of importance to conservatives, such as pro-life issues, support for Israel or the Second Amendment, the response is silence.
For a time, free speech social network Parler offered a new home for conservatives. However, even it was shut down after Jan. 6, as Amazon web servers and Apple’s app store collaborated to shut down the service. It has since returned, but has yet to reach its previous level of reach.
The trend continues to highlight the dominance and control of social media in American political issues. No longer content to control mainstream media television, the left has now found ways to sway tech toward its worldview. Just as conservatives were eventually forced to start their own outlets to offer alternatives on talk radio and television news, social media will likely forge a similar path.
The harm in this case is that social platforms like Facebook and Twitter offer an enormous platform that a conservative alternative will take time to compete with, if the option is even possible. Further, the app stores and search engines, especially Google, may play a limiting role regarding who can see the new outlets even when they do exist.
Many are already in the making. From Gab and Parler to YouTube-alternative Rumble, conservatives are making inroads toward other options. Many conservative blogs are now as likely to post to Rumble or directly email market messages rather than continue to fight Twitter for access and reach.
In Johnson’s case, we’re facing a current senator who is blocked on a top media outlet. There is no reason for this to continue. Hopefully his situation will lead to future change, though it’s anyone’s guess where social media censorship will lead in the days ahead.
They really are a bunch of dog fkrs.
If you were a Dem you could post anything.
Not just a dem but also a liar or propagandist or misinformation specialist. The Marxist left continually find ways to become more and more hated, loathed, despised to the point of needing eradicated like an infestation of cockroaches.
Sickening and worthy of being audited to see whence comes their funding.
Published on MeWe.com a conservative social media.
yt following their leftwing orders.
Being You Tube no explanation is needed for why they want to silence conservatives. It’s only working on a small scale You Tube. Soon conservatives will return to power then what do you think is going to happen????
Big Tech’s day of reckoning is coming. They have less than 2 years before the Republican take the Senate and the House and less than 4 years until the Republicans take the oval office. Their down-fall can not come soon enough for me.
AMEN and AMEN!!!
Totally agree.
Don’t need YouTube in my life.
I dropped FB in 2020, never did Twitter and don’t do You-Tube either. I consider all of them are SATAN TOOLS.
What do y expect from a farm run by goats. May be y don’t get it y are not the only one. Wake up sheep and take ground or be left in little field ornothing.
None of this will change until the spineless pathetic GOP retakes full control of the nation and finally shows some balls! The solution is quite simple, pass legislation that will levy heavy fines per day to any social media outlet that censors anyone, conservative or not. That can’t just be limited to politicians, it must include all Americans. That must exclude death threats or other commentary that’s not protected by the 1A, but all else is fair game.
Just another step towards socialism and a one world government.
Everyone should stop using Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social media outlets. Go back to snail mail to communicate, who needs social media if you can’t tell the people the truth?
This is what I think our Supreme Court is a joke. This is free speech suppression. They should take this up. People should sue the shit out of screw tube. This is a First Amendment case. The Senate should sanction screw tube or outlaw it in the US. Let someone else who a
Utub should be criminally charged with the mass murder, of people by denying treatment with drugs that have been proven to work. Utub is not a medically accredited facility, and nether is the CDC, or the FDA. they are bought off by big pharma to peddle poison to the people.
All of the red states should deport all of their illegal people to blue states,
They should confiscate all of the materials left unused, as it is already paid for. If I remember right the contractors have already been paid for installing it. It would be a way of recouping some of the money that we will need to spend to build the wall.
If I didn’t know any better I would think that I am being shadow banned on DW ( Daily Wire ) As all of my posts this morning have been rejected, as not meeting community standards. Sounds like a fish story to me. As I have said DW needs the hire some conservative factcheckers to factcheck the liberal factcheckers. Or better yet just fire the liberal factcheckers.
Working for Facebook wouldn’t that be fun.
They working for Facebook to censor, maybe I could work for Facebook to censor libtards and get paid for it. Wouldn’t that be fun?
Weinstein Thinks that keeping his mouth shut will save his life. It will not, it will only make him more of a target, to make sure he doesn’t change his mind. What he really needs to do is write his biography as quickly as possible. Then hide multiple copies in different locations, to be released upon his death. This would make the Clintons a nervous mess, to know that the copies are out there, and they will be praying that nothing happens to Weinstein. Will love to see them squirm.
This is the sickness of the leftist media and everyone that’s buying these DEMOSCUM change AMERICA BIDEN is a MUMBLING sick PUPPET of the left!! I worry about how leftys will change the voting to make it so BAD P.TRUMP will never get near the WHITE HOUSE!!
You got that right. Bunch of commies running the government now. Wake up America before it is too late to retain your democracy
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Well, I’ll be damned, and I more than likely will be! Selective, judgmental publication can be a significant pain in the Southern Exposure!
Facebook–a loser’s proposition. Twitter–a ninny’s choice. YouTube–a wonderful venue hijacked by loser-ninnies.
Yeah, there is definitely something happening if a Republican got shut down for a week by YouTube? He is telling the truth about the coronavirus. There is a sinister reason why this virus was released in the first place. They wanted to get Trump out of office so bad that they used this virus as leverage. Think about it. It happens during a presidential election year and Trump was at odds with China. I will not be a bit surprised that the Democrats had a hand in this and also the Republicans because what Trump said almost 5 years ago was true. Drain the swamp! He is right and that pissed off the government