This past week, YouTube deleted a video of a roundtable discussion between Gov. Ron DeSantis and medical experts from Oxford, Stanford and Harvard. In the video, the doctors and medical experts were openly disputing the CDC's guidelines of children wearing masks in school.
Dr. Schott Atlas was quoted as saying, "There is no scientific rationale or logic to have children wear masks in schools."
YouTube has said it removed the clip because "it included content that contradicts the consensus of local and global health authorities regarding the efficacy of masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19."
Yet, the doctors and speakers present at the roundtable discussion are all VERY qualified to speak on this subject.
Gov. DeSantis's press secretary Cody McCloud followed YouTube's removal by saying, "YouTube claimed they removed the video because 'it contradicts the consensus of local and global health authorities,' yet this roundtable was led by world-renowned doctors and epidemiologists from Oxford, Stanford and Harvard, all of whom are eminently qualified to speak on the global health crisis. Good public health policy should include a variety of scientific and technical expertise, and YouTube's decision to remove this video suppresses productive dialogue of these complex issues."
McCloud went on to say that YouTube's action of removing this video is "another blatant example of Big Tech attempting to silence those who disagree with their woke corporate agenda."
This latest move is just one more scenario that should scare us all - republican, democrat, liberal, conservative and non-partisan – it doesn't matter. If you are American and/or live in America, then this should alarm you!
More and more voices that seem to go "against the grain" are being stifled; videos are deleted, Facebook posts are eliminated and Twitter remarks are removed.
Yet, these same big tech companies continue to allow posts and videos of hatred towards certain political leaders to remain up. These same big tech companies also continue to allow videos, posts and apparel that depicts hatred toward our police officers to remain up and in public view.
But yet, it now seems that a standard component of life is this new censorship of what is considered "free speech."
No matter what party line you stand behind – no matter if you believe in masks or not – no matter who you voted for – know this … This censorship is contrary to the American democratic norms of free expression and speech.
Period!
Many years ago, this would have been viewed as something that would only be happening in Russia. We Americans have always prided ourselves as living in the "Land of the Free."
Be afraid – be very afraid.
As we sit idly by and continue to LET this happen, America is not free anymore! We are slowly having our freedoms stripped away from us.
If the few (government) want to control the many (citizenship) – they have to do it without them realizing what is happening (meaning: herding all the sheep into the slaughterhouse without them realizing it).
"If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."
― George Washington
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
― Ronald Reagan