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10 Apr, 12 tweets, 3 min read
I heard that Youtube (owned by Google/Alphabet) took down a video of Florida Gov DeSantis hosting a round-table retro on covid-19 with Scott Atlas, Jay Bhattacharya, and others. That interested me.
As I've previously tweeted, I'm profoundly concerned about censorship and other forms of thought-control beginning to be exercised by the Tech Titans like Google, among others.
Of course, they say that they're doing it for our own good! For good reasons. And honestly, I believe that they believe that. But that doesn't assuage my fear about its potentially deadly effects on our society.
Anyway, since I had previously listened to a few interesting interviews with Bhattacharya, most recently econtalk.org/jay-bhattachar… ...
and previously
And since I had recently seen this interesting video in which 60 Minutes (CBS)'s edited version of an exchange with DeSantis comes out looking very different from the full 3-minute video:
(See also the Washington Post's editorial about that exchange: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…)
So I decided to watch the round-table video that had been censored by Google. It's 1h45m. I thought it was an interesting, reasonable, evidence-based discussion, and the fact that it is being targeted for censorship scares me. reclaimthenet.org/youtube-delete…
៚ (Here are the rules for replying to this thread. You have to watch the full 1h45m round-table video, plus the full 3m36s 60-minutes-vs-DeSantis video before you reply. But you don't have to watch the two earlier videos with Bhattacharya.)
P.S. I said that it was a reasonable discussion and the fact that it is being censored scares me. That doesn't mean I think they are "Right"! What scares me is people who think that if you don't support censorship of something then you must think it is "Right".
HT @backus for tweeting about the takedown and the full video

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