YouTube is censoring my work

YouTube has censored one of my videos for "medical misinformation," and is demonetizing my videos.

On Thursday, I was greeted with an email from YouTube informing me, “YouTube has removed your content.” An interview I had done with Spectator writer Alexandra Marshall, in December, about Australian politics, the Covid lockdown in Australia, and vaccine mandates, was taken down. The email from YouTube said:

“Our team has reviewed your content, and, unfortunately, we think it violates our medical misinformation policy. We've removed the following content from YouTube:

Video: The Same Drugs: Alexandra Marshall on politics in Australia and encroaching totalitarianism”

I watched the video again in its entirety to determine if there is anything said that might constitute “medical misinformation,” as the bulk of the conversation does not address anything “medical.”

Alexandra explains Australian politics, and speaks critically about the lockdowns and mandates. She does speak to the severity of Covid, comparing it to a “bad flu.” She says “cases weren’t as deadly as we were being told” early on, which is true. She is highly critical of vaccine passports and of people being essentially “forced” to get the vaccines, as am I. She says “lockdowns don’t work” when dealing with these kinds of viruses, as the virus is going to spread regardless, and the result is just “delaying the problem,” which has also been shown to be true. Alexandra says that “if you’re under 45, you’re way more likely to die of the flu than of Covid” and that “fully vaccinated people are just as likely to transmit Covid as unvaccinated people.” As I understand it, both of these statements are true. She also suggested that Australians might have preferred to get the Novavax vaccine as they consider it safer than the Pfizer/mRNA vaccine, which seems to be a fairly mainstream view, especially considering what we now know about the connection between the mRNA vaccines and myocarditis. I cannot speak to whether or not this is absolute fact, but saying such a thing seems reasonable to me and should not constitute “medical misinformation” warranting censorship. Alexandra’s point, in any case, was not about vaccine efficacy, but rather that the Australian government was preventing access to the the Novavax vaccine because they wanted to get rid of their Pfizer stocks, which is pretty clearly unethical. Her argument was that people should have the right to choose.

We also joke about the fact that we can’t speak about alternative treatment methods or we’ll be demonetized and kicked off of YouTube and/or other social media platforms. Ironically.

You can watch the full interview yourselves, if you like, but I couldn’t find anything constituting “medical misinformation” in the video and can only conclude that YouTube is censoring content that is critical of the government/Big Pharma party line on Covid policy. If anyone has any other theories, I’d be glad to hear them.

This kind of censorship works as a warning system, similar to Twitter: if you get more than one warning, your channel gets locked down. It’s an unchallengeable system that ends in silencing. You have no choice but to go along, but at the same time, these companies won’t be explicit about what it is you can and cannot say. I have no idea what it was that I or Alexandra said to warrant censorship, except to have criticized government policy and the related vaccine mandates and lockdowns. It means I have no idea what I can and cannot say in the future or what my guests are permitted to say. Importantly, I am being censored based on what other people say on my channel, which means, apparently, I am now expected to censor my interviewees, based on guessing at what YouTube might not like them saying.

Something similar happened to me when I was banned from Twitter: specific tweets were referenced, and I was told my account was being suspended for “violating Twitter's Terms of Service, specifically the Twitter Rules against hateful conduct.” I was not told what rule I broke, or what I had said that constituted “hateful conduct” (none of the tweets referenced by Twitter were, by any stretch of the imagination, “hateful,” for the record.)

YouTube has demonitized my videos in the past, and now appears to be ramping that up, having demontized a live stream I did this week with Jennifer Lahl about the reproductive technology industry, which they limited before the interview even began, as well as my stream with Posie Parker.

You can still access the interview with Alexandra on Patreon, Odysee, and Rumble. I hope you will consider supporting me and my work on those platforms.

But also, because YouTube is demonetizing my videos for no apparent reason, even before they stream, and appear to have shadowbanned me, removing me from the alogorithm, it is important that you subscribe to my channel, as otherwise my videos will not show up in your feed.

I make practically nothing off of YouTube videos, so another good way to support my work is by subscribing here, supporting the podcast directly on Anchor.fm, or signing up as a patron, on Patreon, where I offer early access to interviews and Patreon-only live streams.

Thank you to everyone supporting me in my ongoing fight against censorship and to speak the truth.