Rand Paul Calls Out ‘Snot-Nosed Censors’ After CDC Concedes Flaws of Cloth Masks

YouTube banned Sen. Rand Paul (R. Ky.) from questioning COVID-19’s narrative about which masks can be used to stop disease transmission. 

He posted a disturbing story about cloth masks from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention earlier this month and asked for an apology on YouTube. 

Paul didn’t shy away from calling out Big Tech for censoring what turned out to be true. “Does this mean snot-nosed censors at YouTube will come to my office and kiss my … and admit I was right?” Paul remarked in a Jan. 15 tweet. He sent a link for a New York Times article headlined “The C.D.C. concedes that cloth masks do not protect against the virus as effectively as other masks.” The article explained that the CDC “clarified” its stance on masks “acknowledging that the cloth masks frequently worn by Americans do not offer as much protection as surgical masks or respirators,” while noting in clear terms: “the update marks the first time the C.D.C. has explicitly addressed the differences.”

The debate regarding the efficacy of masks was the breaking point for Paul’s use of Big Tech video streaming platforms.

Paul moved to Rumble in January after leaving YouTube. He has since been uploading video content there. In a Jan. 3 press release, Paul declared his “exodus from Big Tech” starting “with the worst censor of all, YouTube,” which censored his skepticism over cloth masks and COVID-19:

“Over the last year, YouTube has continued to wage its dangerous, anti-progress of science war against free speech, choosing to act in lockstep with government and ban videos posted by Dr. Paul that dared to contradict the government’s position. These videos included conversations with journalists where he discussed the efficacy of masks, particularly cloth masks, and a video explaining the science behind why cloth masks don’t work.”

YouTube is one the Alphabet branch companies. The National Legal and Policy Center, one of Alphabet’s major shareholders, has reportedly called it out for censoring the Biden administration.

The Washington Free Beacon quoted NLPC Chairman Peter Flaherty as he skewered Big Tech for being all too quick to censor, particularly when controversial information in a developing crisis turns out to be true: “The administration keeps labeling certain information about the pandemic ‘disinformation,’ and gets it yanked off social media, only to later embrace the same information.”

Big Tech famously blocked the Wuhan laboratory leak origin theory for the COVID-19 Pandemic. The theory was eventually accepted as the best explanation, and became the most popular in just a few months. Meanwhile, disgraced fact-checkers were experiencing a crisis.

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