YouTube announces new ban on vaccine misinformation



In an effort to manage "harmful content" on its platform, YouTube announced Wednesday new restrictions on videos that are critical of vaccines.

"Today, we're expanding our medical misinformation policies on YouTube with new guidelines on currently administered vaccines that are approved and confirmed to be safe and effective by local health authorities and the WHO," the company said in a blog post.

YouTube will ban any video that "falsely alleges that approved vaccines are dangerous and cause chronic health effects, claims that vaccines do not reduce transmission or contraction of disease, or contains misinformation on the substances contained in vaccines will be removed."

Videos claiming that vaccines cause autism, cancer, or infertility will no longer be permitted on YouTube's platform. Likewise, content that alleges substances in the vaccines approved by the World Health Organization or government health authorities "can track those who receive them" is now banned.

"As with our COVID guidelines, we consulted with local and international health organizations and experts in developing these policies," the company said. "For example, our new guidance on vaccine side effects maps to public vaccine resources provided by health authorities and backed by medical consensus."

The new policy went into immediate effect Wednesday. According to CBS News, several popular anti-vaccine channels, including one run by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., were banned after the company's announcement.

The policy change comes as the United States and other countries are implementing mandatory COVID-19 vaccine requirements to force vaccine-hesitant individuals to get their shots. The mandates are highly controversial in the U.S., where President Joe Biden ordered businesses with 100 or more employees to have their workers vaccinated or tested for COVID weekly by executive fiat.

"We've steadily seen false claims about the coronavirus vaccines spill over into misinformation about vaccines in general, and 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," YouTube said.

The new rules will apply to claims about vaccines in general as well as statements about specific vaccines, such as the common immunizations for measles or Hepatitis B.

There are limited exceptions to the guidelines. Content about vaccine policies, new vaccine trials, and historical examples of vaccine successes or failures is still allowed on YouTube.

"Personal testimonials relating to vaccines will also be allowed, so long as the video doesn't violate other Community Guidelines, or the channel doesn't show a pattern of promoting vaccine hesitancy," YouTube said.

Horowitz: Medical boards threatening dangerous censorship of any dissent on COVID strategy



After the incumbent governmental and medical powers failed miserably in dealing with this pandemic, now is the time when we need even more robust debate, critique and free flow of information about the current strategies, and new ideas to forge a better path. We need a second opinion.

Yet, there is now an [un]natural selection in medicine and scientific academia whereby anyone who criticizes lockdowns, masks, this particular vaccine or the mass vaccination strategy, or proposes cheap and effective treatment options will have their careers destroyed. The result is fewer ideas and the continued failure of the status quo.

The Federation of State Medical Boards, a nonprofit that represents all U.S. state medical boards, announced last week that they would revoke the license of anyone caught spreading what they deem as "misinformation" about the vaccine. Mind you, our own government doesn't have a consistent narrative on its long-term efficacy or safety, but they get to be the judge, jury, and executioner of all information flow.

"Due to their specialized knowledge and training, licensed physicians possess a high degree of public trust and therefore have a powerful platform in society, whether they recognize it or not," FSMB said in a statement to Becker Hospital Review. "They also have an ethical and professional responsibility to practice medicine in the best interests of their patients and must share information that is factual, scientifically grounded and consensus-driven for the betterment of public health."

Wow – that sure sounds like it applies to those who lied about lockdowns and masks, and now, appear to be lying about the vaccine as well. Remember, when Dr. Anthony Fauci said all three vaccines are nearly 100% effective against severe disease? Good times. As of Tuesday, 74% of those in critical condition with COVID in Israel – the only country to put out unified daily data on this point – were fully vaccinated.

Let's face it, as a nation, we have locked down, masked up, and jabbed up with greater levels of intensity than anyone could have imagined. And it has failed to work. Even in the states with lower vaccination rates, it's still relative and the majority of adults, especially older ones, are vaccinated, and the overwhelming majority of seniors are vaccinated in every state.

The biomedical fascists controlled the policies and got what they wanted. They also got failed treatments like remdesivir as the only standard of care, and successfully blocked ivermectin and other cheap and effective therapeutics. And they have failed miserably. Why should we continue to only listen to those same voices?

Our government is about to mindlessly grant full approval to the Pfizer shot, which will undoubtedly set off a domino effect of mandates and tyranny. Isn't now the time when we need to debate all the dangerous side effects? Even with all of the censorship and the stigma against reporting adverse effects, the VAERS system reports nearly 12,000 deaths and tens of thousands of very serious reactions. There are also growing concerns that, with very high case rates in places with universal vaccination, the vaccine, after all its risk incurred, is actually inducing mutations through viral immune escape and possible antibody dependency disease enhancement (ADE).

Indeed, on page 52 the FDA's "Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for an Unapproved Product Review Memorandum," it states that there appears to be no concern of ADE in the short run, but, "risk of vaccine-enhanced disease over time, potentially associated with waning immunity, remains unknown and needs to be evaluated further in ongoing clinical trials and in observational studies that could be conducted following authorization and/or licensure."

Well, with the Israelis quite confident that the immunity wanes after six months, and with Pfizer already pushing a third shot, doesn't that mean that we have reached the reckoning of that long-term concern of ADE, which could possibly explain how the mass vaccination is making things worse?

Imagine how many more reports and studies we'd see produced on these questions – questions that the FDA admits were not studies – if people would know their careers would not be terminated for blowing the whistle?

The big question is why the purveyors of the failed status quo are so fearful of the debate and have such little confidence in the veracity of their own arguments. Well, it's time for red states to find out. Governors and state legislatures need to bar state medical boards from penalizing doctors for exercising their freedom of speech to take a side on a broad public interest issue. If their assertions are truly that absurd, then the powers at be, with their vast resources and army of staff, should be able to deftly refute their assertions, right? What are they afraid of?