“The efforts in Florida to protect the elderly while permitting the rest of society to function normally led to a success that has been celebrated the world over. It causes major disruption to the lockdown narrative that the only way to suppress a virus is to suppress rights and freedoms,” the American Institute for Economic Research stated.
It continued that the roundtable “came to serve as a tutorial in the relationship between public policy and virus mitigation.”
The March 18 video highlighted Atlas as well as Harvard professor of medicine Dr. Martin Kulldorff, Oxford professor of epidemiology Dr. Sunetra Gupta, and Stanford professor of medicine and epidemiologist Dr. Jay Bhattacharya.
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On April 7, YouTube “suddenly deleted the entire video from its platform,” according to the institute.
When trying to enter the video, one sees the YouTube message, “This video has been removed for violating YouTube’s Community Guidelines.”
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The discussion, which claimed it would uncover all the lies about Covid and the “liars who told them,” had amounted to more than half a million views before it was pulled. Excerpts of the recording spread across the internet, with some viewers criticizing Crowder for sharing views about Black farmers that they found racist.
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YouTube, which is owned by Google, hasn’t published a public comment on the subject.
“This policy has now run afoul of the basic needs of public health messaging, science, and sound policy decision making, even to the point of removing a serious forum of a popular government along with his scientific advisors from Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford universities,” the American Institute for Economic Research stated.
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A few weeks ago, YouTube verified that it removed a video from conservative commentator Steven Crowder for supposedly violating the platform’s content policies regarding COVID-19.
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“This video violates our COVID-19 misinformation policy, which prohibits content claiming that the death rates of COVID-19 are less severe or equally as severe as the common cold or seasonal flu,” YouTube said in a statement in March to Bloomberg News. “As a result, the video was removed from Steven Crowder’s channel.”
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YouTube has tried to balance the need to police its site for harmful content with the desire to be a neutral platform for diverse perspectives across the political spectrum. The company has taken several actions against channels run by prominent right-wing figures this year. It banned former White House adviser Steve Bannon’s podcast in January and later suspended former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani for the second time in two months, citing his repeated false claims about election fraud and his promotion of the use of nicotine in his cigar ads.
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