On Thursday afternoon former Republican Congressman Ron Paul announced that YouTube inexplicably and without warning deleted his Ron Paul Institute Channel, citing “no warning, no strikes, no evidence.”
The popular Libertarian thinker and long-term Republican rep whose daily commentary is featured in the Ron Paul Liberty Report said he was “very shocked” especially given the channel has lately been “rarely used”. The popular Liberty Report is hosted on a different channel altogether and appears to still be active, however.
After appealing the move, YouTube sent Paul a message saying the request for review and appeal has been denied.
“We have decided to keep your account suspended based on our Community Guidelines and Terms of Service,” YouTube said in a statement screenshoted and posted to Twitter by the former Congressman.
It’s unclear precisely what was behind YouTube’s rationale for the suspension, but the dominant video upload platform owned by Google just this week announced what’s essentially a ‘zero tolerance’ approach to channels flagged for Covid ‘misinformation.’
As TechCrunch detailed Wednesday, “The Google-owned video platform had previously banned over 1 million videos spreading dangerous COVID-19 misinformation.”
The report continues, “Now, YouTube says it will also remove content that spreads misinformation about vaccine safety, the efficacy of vaccines and ingredients in vaccines.”
The Ron Paul Institute via its main webpage regularly features analysis questioning the flurry of contradictory dictates coming out of federal and state health authorities concerning Covid-19, vaccines, social distancing practices and enforcement.
However, it remains unclear if this was the reason for the ban on its YouTube channel. Regardless it’s possible that the more popular Liberty Report, which has over 289,000 subscribers and frequently produces viral videos, could be targeted next.
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Know your enemy…
It’s a good thing we kept Section 230 around!
Sum (sic) dummies don’t know sarc.
Let your imaginations run wild. Just how far will the wings of the raptor named tyranny spread? How many teeth will it use to rip our flesh? The end is here and I suppose that we’ll pontificate while permitted until we are broken.
Problem is we are one in 140, so we are about as likely to catch the virus, we are being overwhelmed, they ran the numbers in AI, which I can do on a spreadsheet, they know the population is of this world.
Keynesian economics failed in 2008 or before, in the 1970’s they taught Austrian and Keynesian economics in college, the same decade they quit teaching Austrian economics, so if the only economics’s they taught failed, lets just change the name to MMT
We are being screwed every which way, oh the dollar store is now the $1.25 store, so the increase of 25% overnight, says so.
Know what will stop this? Free markets and de-regulation.
Sarc? “sTaRt YoUr OwN iNtErNeT” or phone company or whatever. Once these tech companies achieve dominance, they are unstoppable monopolies. Like the phone company. They should be legally prohibited from censoring anything short of child porn and incitements to ACTUAL violence (not “your words are hurting my feelings”). There are about 1-2 members of congress who understand this or would propose it, though.
We have not had free markets forever, de-regulation really, look around your local area every damn school board, city, and township is a monopoly, and 80% Fraud.
Go talk at a township meeting like Ron Paul would talk, everyone except a few, like the engineering firm and lawyer are idiots or have a good life and do not care.
They are letting in millions of illegals. not only to vote democrat, but to try and quell the 25% inflation we are having, when wages take off that fuels inflation even more, the south of the border people work for less, while 100 million americans who could work and dont, they will not take the 20 million open positions, fat and lazy thanks to uncle sam, and the parents spoiling them.
China makes 80% of our product, another 10% made in other foreign markets, now china is shutting down the business’s, so it doesnt matter how many labor’s they bring in no production here, all talking heads. HIGHER Prices, and Shortages.
Not to mention with socialism the productive say I quit too, The government is counting on the people who live week to week to not walk off.
The invaders are not coming here to work. They are not going to replace anyone because even working at minimum wage, you’d still lead a horrible existence. Do you really think it possible to live in LA, New York, San Francisco or Chicago on minimum wage? No, they’ve got other plans and I can assure you that it isn’t working regardless of what the Karens in DC happen to think.
In order to create societies that have free markets, or as I prefer to say “open markets”, the current banking / monetary systems must be destroyed.
Ahhh, you mean “under the table” economics?
Yes
At the moment, individual websites like this one are allowed to exist. That’s not guaranteed to continue. ISP’s and web hosting companies will face pressure to cancel transgressive sites, not to mention the un-banking and not being allowed to take in money via credit cards, Pay Pal, etc.
We should probably start a network of carrier pigeons to hand-carry mimeographed newsletters, but I wouldn’t put it past the Deep State to start shooting all pigeons.
YouTube Suddenly Deletes, Then Restores Ron Paul Institute’s Channel After Backlash
by Tyler Durden
Thursday, Sep 30, 2021 – 02:55 PM
update (2:55pm ETD): An hour after Ron Paul’s initial viral tweet announcing YouTube had terminated the account, the Ron Paul Institute’s channel suddenly and without explanation appears to have been restored.
The issue is that they deleted Ron Paul’s channel… not that upon pressure… they restored it. There is a distinct hubris from Google, FB, Tik tok, etc etc that they control the narrative and all those that present a different perspective must be eliminated from the public view… cast to the internet netherworld. Most of us don’t have Ron Paul’s platform to light this type of injustice… we will just be squashed. How righteous they must feel in their purge to take on the well known because they feel justified. Flabbergasted because the agenda of removing all things not the official narrative is moving into overdrive.
Google is the Enemy
I have 11 family members flying in from as far away as Alaska and Texas come Thanksgiving as we’ve all come to realize that this is probably the last opportunity we’ll have to all be together as a family. Sitting down at the table will be a judge, commercial fisherman, geologist, Registered Nurse, Baptist Minister, environmentalist, costume designer, drug & alcohol therapist, professional soldiers, my parents, and myself.
As a family, we’ve worked hard for this nation. We have offered up everything we have to try to make our time here as productive and meaningful as possible. In exchange for all of that, the government shat all over us while half of the country cheered.
No, it isn’t lost on a single one of us the seriousness of the situation. The ability to comment, as I am commenting now, isn’t long for this world. Not long at all. Likewise, the ability to eat, too, is on its way out the door.
Still, there may be time for one more Thanksgiving.