I have my problems with YouTube, but this isn't censorship, and it isn't a conspiracy to silence anyone. It's an effort to be responsible to public health and safety. The hysteria I see here is completely unwarranted.
Two reasonable people can agree on the underlying facts but disagree on policy.
Additionally, this is absolutely censorship and an effort to silence people. It is not an illegal act of censorship. similarly, you can agree that it is legal, but still not like the censorship.
February onwards, WHO did a full 180. But everyone who got censored before then was the victim.
Same thing about effectiveness of wearing masks.
So anyone pointing out the obvious that "China cannot have lesser deaths than Canada" is considered a "misinformation, disinformation and conspiracy theorists" because they "contradict the World Health Organization's official guidelines during an emergency pandemic".
How people don't see the clear danger of such censorship is beyond me. WHO also says China has been transparent.
The WHO said there had been no reports of it spreading human to human. And that was true, there hadn’t.
The reason your favourite conspiracy sources are taken offline is because they lie - they make you, an otherwise intelligent person, believe something that wasn’t true.
A favoured argument by one section of the internet is that “it doesn’t spread from Children to Adults”. An extraordinary claim.
They interpret the statement “there have been limited cases of it spreading from children” and treat that absense of evidence as an evidence of absence.
Note that in January, in a QA dated 9th, they did say
“Yes, some coronaviruses can be transmitted from person to person, usually after close contact with an infected patient, for example, in a household workplace, or health care centre.”
I.e coronaviruses in general spread, we haven’t seen this one spread yet.
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1. https://www.who.int/images/default-source/health-topics/coro...
No, YouTube still is determining credibility. YouTube is still saying, "this video is misinformation and we are removing it." The fact that it's treating the WHO information as the baseline does not change the fact that YouTube is deciding credibility, and removing videos that do not meet it's criteria for credibility.