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YouTube also just deleted the accounts of the German independent investigatory committee www.corona-ausschuss.de who are an important information source for many German citizen.

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You are being very generous by calling them an "investigatory committee". They routinely compare the anti Covid measures by the German government to the Holocaust [1]. On the same site, you can also see that they touted the weird conspiracy theory of becoming magnetic after being vaccinated.

They violated Youtube's ToS with their conspiracy theories and got kicked out, it seems.

[1] https://www.psiram.com/de/index.php/Stiftung_Corona-Ausschus...

>They violated Youtube's ToS with their conspiracy theories and got kicked out, it seems.

great sign of progress. Just mere 400 years ago they would have been tortured and burned at stake as heretics. Though who knows, the way things been moving lately ...

Yes I see it as progress that YouTube kicks off antivax conspiracies. It would be nice if Facebook did the same

From USSR times I'm very sceptical about supposed truths which can't stand on their merits alone and require active administrative suppression of the doubt to maintain the perception of truthiness.

Out of curiosity, why did people downvote this comment? I find that it states a very valid concern in our digital age where information can be very effectively suppressed from the majority of people, regardless if I agree or disagree with the message of said information.

Yeah, because surely governments and medical institutions have never lied to, hurt, or killed anyone. They say they want to help us and no one should be allowed to say otherwise. And I'm sure YouTube's only motivation is to protect us.

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