YouTube apparently censored Darrel (R–CA)’s speech on COVID-19.
According to reports, a Republican who praised the American COVID-19 vaccinations’ effectiveness was blocked from speaking out. Are any mere statements from the right about COVID-19 tripping Big Tech’s censorship radar? “Rep. Darrell Issa (Republican from California) attacked YouTube following the removal of a speech that he had given. In a phone interview with Fox News, Issa cited the censorship as proof that its algorithms are biased against conservatives,” Fox News summarized Nov. 9. “YouTube alleged that Issa’s speech violated its rules against anti-vaccine misinformation, even though the only reference to vaccines that Issa made in the speech was to tout the superiority of the American COVID-19 vaccines over the Russian Sputnik vaccine.”
Fox News reports that Issa said Big Tech is trying to censor people because of who they are rather than what their words are.
“The fact that they’re sort of calling me a vaccine-denier when I’m talking about our product being better than a product from a country that didn’t have third-party review is a pretty amazing level of scrutiny, and I think it shows just how much they’re making decisions based on who says something, not what they say.”
Fox News observed “[t]he American vaccines are widely acknowledged to be superior to the Russian version, which U.S. authorities don’t count toward its immunization requirements for foreign nationals seeking to enter the country.“
Issa claims that other sources were not censored because of the same claim. This makes Issa’s censorship all the more bizarre. “They don’t take down the AP, they don’t take down the NYT, but they will take down Darrell Issa for a completely benign statement that our product was better,” he said, according to Fox News.
According to reports, Issa spoke in July at the EDGE2021 conference that focuses on government technology. Issa reportedly summarized that “I used the analogy that just like the original Sputnik, when the Russians were first and we were better, they came out with their vaccine first but ours was better.”
As of the publishing of this blog, YouTube has not responded to inquiry from MRC Free Speech America as to whether Issa’s grievances against the platform are legitimate.
YouTube is a victim of inept censorship. YouTube was censored. reinstatedIn late September, the Ron Paul Institute channel was available on its platform. Ron Paul is a former Republican Congressman from Texas. YouTube also removed a Sept. 11, 2001 commemorative video posted by an ACT For America staffer, explaining: “[W]e think it violates our violent criminal organizations policy.” YouTube later reinstated the video.
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