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A comment on Why Did YouTube Censor Discussion of Ivermectin?|Bret Weinstein and Lex Fridman.

Re:Why Did YouTube Censor Discussion of Ivermectin?|Bret Wei... by christmm on Thursday July 01, 2021 @07:26AM (#27698081)
YouTube is obliged to takedown videos reporting on non vaccine treatments of Covid19, having signed on to the "Trusted News Initiative" https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2020/trusted-news-initiative..."
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Re:Why Did YouTube Censor Discussion of Ivermectin?|Bret Wei... by LinuxBender on Thursday July 01, 2021 @07:39AM (#27698136)
Looks like TNI is run by the chairman of the BBC. They have a unique and interesting history in this area. [1] I am personally not a fan of censorship and prefer people debate important topics. It feels to me like we could use a modern day equivalent to Radio Caroline [2]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_banned_by_the_BB...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Caroline

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