It’s amazing what you can find on YouTube. If you need to fix something, somebody has already done it, filmed it and posted a video on how to do it yourself. I’ve even contributed a couple “how to” videos myself when I solved an interesting problem. <\/p>\n
If you want to find out how to mount an electric motor on your kayak, or the best way to put line on your string trimmer, or how to make an impossible dove tail with two pieces of wood — YouTube is the ticket. <\/p>\n
You can learn all kinds of things, like that the earth is flat, that ancient aliens built the pyramids, that the shroud of Turin is genuine, and<\/i> that it’s a fake …. It’s amazing. You can learn anything you want<\/i> — with some very telling exceptions. <\/p>\n
For example, if you’re a PhD biologist who believes Ivermectin might be a good tool in the battle against COVID — as many doctors around the world do — well …. That’s too much for the teenage genius censors at YouTube, who know so much better than some dummy like Dr. Bret Weinstein. (If you haven’t heard, YouTube has suspended Weinstein.) <\/p>\n
This is simply intolerable. We have a bunch of woke kids deciding what information you can and cannot have access to. Flat Earth? Sure. Ivermectin. No way. <\/p>\n
YouTube should be subject to the free speech conventions that we’ve painstakingly developed over many, many years. <\/p>\n
Yes, I know the old “but it’s a private company” excuse. Applying that sort of argument in this case is misguided. YouTube is essentially a public utility, and it ought to be treated as one. <\/p>\n
Of course the same applies to Facebook and Twitter, which are not great, but, like YouTube, have risen to the level of public utility \/ common carrier. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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