YouTube s Political Censorship – WSJ

On Friday Google s YouTube platform notified Stanford University s Hoover Institution that it had removed a 50-minute video interview with Scott Atlas, a neuroradiologist and Hoover fellow, that was published in June. Dr. Atlas has argued publicly including in an interview in our pages that the social harm from strict coronavirus lockdowns is severe.

YouTube s notice to Hoover says YouTube does not allow content that spreads medical misinformation that contradicts the World Health Organization (WHO) or local health authorities medical information about COVID-19. Note that YouTube has appointed the WHO as an arbiter for what Americans can see on the platform. The WHO has sometimes been swayed by China s Communist Party, and as recently as January it relayed Chinese assertions that there is no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the virus.

YouTube tells us in a statement that it removed the Atlas interview for falsely stating that a certain age group cannot transmit the virus. The company is apparently referring to Dr. Atlas s remark, amid a discussion about school reopening, that children do not even transmit the disease.

via www.wsj.com

Something has to be done about Google.