Posted on 09/29/2021 8:10:53 AM PDT by sitetest
YouTube said it would remove content that falsely alleges approved vaccines are dangerous and cause severe health effects, expanding the video platform’s efforts in curbing misinformation on Covid-19 to other vaccines.
Examples of content that would be taken down include claims that approved vaccines cause autism, cancer or infertility and that they don’t reduce transmission or contraction of the disease, the Alphabet Inc. GOOG +0.50% division said Wednesday.
The policies cover general statements about vaccines and not only for Covid-19 and specific routine immunizations such as those for measles and hepatitis B, YouTube said. The platform said it has removed more than 130,000 videos for violating its Covid-19 vaccine policies since last year.
“We’ve steadily seen false claims about the coronavirus vaccines spill over into misinformation about vaccines in general,” YouTube said. “We’re now at a point where it’s more important than ever to expand the work we started with Covid-19 to other vaccines.”
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Democrat party finds something stronger than the KKK.
“Since Big Tech has now gotten into the censorship game, their legal protections needs to be stopped.”
That is the other half of the fascist equation. Government protects them from such actions in return for their doing things government legally can’t. Domestic spying, censorship, suppression of dissent through economic attacks.
Who determines what is ‘misinformation’?
Oh.. the people who WANT YOU to get the vaccine.
No bias there.
I suspect even the left ass are going to regret going along with all this nonsense.
Of course, it will be to late to fix it.
Sooooooo ... ..., most everything from Phauchee will be gone????
How do I get then to remove videos
containing automotive repair misinformation?
Yep. Editors.
Nothing , however, will be done about it.
Welcome to the world of being a “publisher” YouTube. They are no longer under section 230 and can be sued. Time to bleed them dry.
Since this has been going on for quite a while now, how is this news?
Exactly.
The question is, who is ‘they’ ?
I’m sticking to my guns that it’s NOT YouTube/Google/Facebook/Twitter calling the shots.
They are taking orders from someone or something.
Me thinks they doth protest antivaxxers too much...
Why is anyone surprised at this??
What kind of misinformation? Like telling people getting the vaccine will prevent you from getting Covid?
Breaking up Google might just be the start. I would also like to see a prohibition on YouTube's algorithm which is another form of censorship. Right now the algorithm absurdly favors "legacy" media despite the fact that people were going to YouTube to get away from that crap.
They are the misinformation (propaganda).
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