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YouTube Censors Video Criticizing Fauci and Coronavirus Response

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YouTube has censored a video featuring a virologist who once worked with Dr. Anthony Fauci and questions the government’s approach to the coronavirus pandemic.

In the video, which apparently violates the platform’s requirement that any views expressed on the pandemic cannot be in conflict with the World Health Organization, Dr. Judy Mikovits contends the isolate-everyone policy is a big mistake and claims officials have a financial incentive to implement mass vaccinations. . .

Mikovits claims Fauci was among the top health officials who framed her and destroyed her career because of her contrary views.

YouTube CEO Susan Wojkicki said in a recent interview with CNN that “anything that would go against World Health Organization recommendations would be a violation of our policy.” . . .

Mikovits claims in the video that the government’s approach to the coronavirus is an existential threat to the United States. (Read more from “YouTube Censors Video Criticizing Fauci and Coronavirus Response” HERE)

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YouTube Censors California Doctors Urging End of Lockdown

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Shortly after an interview Monday night with Fox News, YouTube removed videos of a press briefing in which two California doctors carefully laid out their case for ending the lockdowns implemented in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

The videos, which drew more than 5 million views, featured Dan Erickson and Artin Massihi – the owners of Accelerated Urgent Care in Bakersfield, California – presenting their conclusions based on their testing of more than 5,000 patients for the coronavirus combined with public data.

In place of the videos is a message from YouTube explaining the contents violate the Google-owned platform’s “community guidelines.”

Google’s apparent censorship coincided with the doctors’ further exposure through an interview Monday night with Fox News host Laura Ingraham.

Later in the program, after having interviewed the doctors at the top of the hour, Ingraham informed her viewers that YouTube “just took down their viral video challenging the COVID narrative.” (Read more from “YouTube Censors California Doctors Urging End of Lockdown” HERE)

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Here’s the Gender Ideology That YOUTUBE Recommended for a Nine-Year-Old Girl

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YouTube appears to have recommended a video that explains a “gender non-conforming” lifestyle for eight to twelve-year-old YouTube users.

Heritage Action Executive Director Tim Chapman tweeted Tuesday that he created a YouTube profile for his 9-year-old daughter “in hopes of having better control over content.” But after Chapman had created the account, he noticed that YouTube recommended a 2018 video created by HiHo Kids to his daughter titled “Kids Meet A Gender Non-Conforming Person.” . . .

Chapman included a screenshot of the content YouTube recommended showing that the platform offered the content beside the caption saying that “content recommended for kids ages 8-12 allows kids with growing independence to search and explore additional music videos, gaming, family vlogs, science, and more.” . . .

Chapman told the Daily Caller News Foundation that though he disagrees with “the extreme views of the leadership at Google,” he respects their right to hold these views.

“But when they cross the line and push those views onto children, it shows how little respect their leadership has for the millions of American families using their products who have different perspectives on these issues,” Chapman said. “And worse, it shows a determination to engage in culture wars and push those of us who dissent from the misguided conventional wisdom of the age to the margins of society.” (Read more from “Here’s the Gender Ideology That YOUTUBE Recommended for a Nine-Year-Old Girl” HERE)

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YouTube Bans Daily Signal Video On Gender Transitions Over ‘Hate Speech’

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The Daily Signal, the Heritage Foundation’s investigative reporting, news, and commentary outlet, says that one of their videos, a YouTube testimonial from a pediatrician about gender transition surgery for children, was censored by YouTube for “hate speech.”

According to the Daily Signal’s Kate Trinko, the group’s 2017 video starring Dr. Michelle Cretella, “pediatrician with many years’ experience and the executive director of the American Academy of Pediatricians,” was pulled off YouTube because, in the video, Cretella suggested that, “if you want to cut off a leg or an arm you’re mentally ill, but if you want to cut off healthy breasts or a penis, you’re transgender.”

“The Daily Signal recently learned that our video of Cretella had been removed from YouTube. In its place, YouTube displayed this message: “This video has been removed for violating YouTube’s policy on hate speech,” the group says.

Attempts to contact YouTube proved futile. “Over the past few months, The Daily Signal worked with YouTube to try to reach a resolution. Ultimately, we were told the only way we could get the video back on YouTube was to delete the previously mentioned sentence.” . . .

The Daily Signal admits that Cretella’s statement is controversial, but that doesn’t make it “hate speech,” even under a broad definition. It simply makes it … controversial. The topic itself — transgenderism and gender transition measures for children — is a hot topic, and Cretella’s point is that society views some bodily alterations with scorn and others with an open embrace. Cretella’s statement doesn’t even reference transgenderism or gender transition surgery specifically. (Read more from “YouTube Bans Daily Signal Video On Gender Transitions Over ‘Hate Speech’” HERE)

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14-Year-Old with One Million Followers Allegedly Threatens to Shoot up Youtube HQ After Being Banned for Anti-Gay Video

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A teenager with nearly a million followers on YouTube reportedly threatened the streaming platform’s headquarters with a mass shooting after being banned from the site for violating its hate speech policy.

Soph, a 14-year-old who goes by the handle @sewerrat, tweeted a photo of herself and what appears to be an assault rifle, Buzzfeed first reported. The accompanying caption read “YouTube headquarters here I come.” . . .

The high school freshman was banned from YouTube earlier this month after posting the latest in a string of anti-LGBT videos.

“If you want to be sexually promiscuous as an adult with other consenting adults, feel ,” she announced in a 12-minute clip, titled “Pride and Prejudice.” “Just don’t try to get kids roped in with your street orgies.” . . .

After her channel was taken down from YouTube, her Patreon and Bonfire pages were similarly removed and links she provided to a Bitcoin Cash site did not work. Her videos, including “Pride and Prejudice,” can still be viewed on the streaming site BitChute. (Read more from “14-Year-Old with One Million Followers Allegedly Threatens to Shoot up Youtube HQ After Being Banned for Anti-Gay Video” HERE)

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Couple Launches Safe Website for Children as an Alternative to YouTube

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A few years ago, an Iowa couple became concerned about the type of online content available to children and the negative effects it can have on mood, behavior, and learning. So, they decided to do something about it.

Joseph Sines, and his wife, Bethany, decided to utilize their skills and background to create a website for kids that would entertain, educate, calm, and most importantly, be 100 percent safe for young minds.

They recently soft-launched their subscription website dubbed Bottlesodes or, as they like to call it, B-TV. The site is loaded with short videos aimed at kids ages 3 to 11. . .

Joseph has worked in the film industry for about 12 years, and Bethany studied child development in college. They’ve been married 11 years and they have an 8-year-old daughter and a 6-year-old son.

In an interview with TheBlaze, the couple said that, after having kids, they noticed that children — their own as well as those of their friends — would sometimes have meltdowns after watching TV or videos online. (Read more from “Couple Launches Safe Website for Children as an Alternative to YouTube” HERE)

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YouTube Takes Drastic Steps After Pedophile Controversy

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The online video platform YouTube is taking drastic steps after reports that a pedophiles were using comments sections to target children caused advertisers to abandon the site in droves.

According to Ars Technica, some videos hosted on the website were discovered to contain highly questionable and predatory images of children that pedophiles were linking to each other. . .

The company has also permanently banned comments from channels that were caught with a history of “predatory comments.”

“Based on our review of historical comments, a small number of channels that we have identified as having a high level of risk for predatory comments will not be able to re-enable comments, even with moderation,” the statement from the company read. . .

YouTube has also been criticized by parents who have discovered videos meant to be viewed by children that had secret messages encouraging suicide.

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Watch Your Kids: Pediatrician Finds Wrist-Slitting Suicide Tip Spliced Into Video on YouTube Kids App

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By The Blaze. A Florida pediatrician found a suicide tip spliced in the middle of a video posted to the YouTube Kids app, WFTX-TV reported.

The clip is of a popular Nintendo game called Splatoon, CBS News said — except for an unrelated portion in the middle showing a person saying, “Remember kids, sideways for attention, longways for results. End it.”

According to the Washington Post, the person appeared to be holding an imaginary blade to the inside of his arm. His “longways” motion went from the bottom of his hand and down his forearm toward his elbow. . .

It’s hard to say what happened to the video, as it appears to have been taken down and re-uploaded numerous times.

As recently as Sunday, Hess noted on her Facebook page that she recorded a version of the clip “directly from YouTube Kids” that very afternoon. YouTube told WFTX the video violates its community guidelines, and a spokesperson said in part, “We work hard to ensure YouTube is not used to encourage dangerous behavior, and we have strict policies that prohibit videos which promote self-harm.” (Read more from “Watch Your Kids: Pediatrician Finds Wrist-Slitting Suicide Tip Spliced Into Video on YouTube Kids App” HERE)

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Horrified Mom Discovers Suicide Instructions in Video on YouTube and YouTube Kids

By CBS News. Video promoting self-harm tips — spliced between clips of a popular video game — has surfaced at least twice on YouTube and YouTube Kids since July, according to a pediatrician and mom who discovered the video.

The suicide instructions are sandwiched between clips from the popular Nintendo game Splatoon and delivered by a man speaking in front of what appears to be a green screen — an apparent effort to have him blend in with the rest of the animated video. . .

The man featured is YouTuber Filthy Frank, who has over 6.2 million subscribers and calls himself “the embodiment of everything a person should not be,” although there is no evidence that Frank, whose real name is George Miller, was involved in creating the doctored video. He did not immediately respond to CBS News’ request for comment.

When Free Hess found the video on YouTube last week, she posted it on her blog — warning other parents to take control over what their kids may be watching. . . .

Hess said she spotted another version of the same video on YouTube Kids in July last year. She said she and many other parents from Facebook groups came together to report it, and the video was eventually taken down after one parent directly contacted an employee at Google. Google has not responded to CBS News’ inquiry about the steps that led to the video’s removal. (Read more from “Horrified Mom Discovers Suicide Instructions in Video on YouTube and YouTube Kids” HERE)

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WATCH: Disney, Nestle Pull YouTube Ads After This Viral Video Exposes ‘Pedophilia Ring’

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According to Bloomberg, the Walt Disney Co., Nestle, and “Fortnite” creator Epic Games, Inc. have “paused” their advertising spending on YouTube after a viral video report detailing an alleged “soft-core pedophilia ring” operating via the platform’s comments section.

An alarming 20-minute report (below) posted by video blogger Matt Watson on his YouTube channel “MattsWhatItIs” Sunday purports to expose “a wormhole into a soft-core pedophilia ring on YouTube.”

“Over the past 48 hours I have discovered a wormhole into a soft-core pedophilia ring on Youtube,” Watson wrote in the description of the video, which has already racked up nearly 2 million views. “Youtube’s recommended algorithm is facilitating pedophiles’ ability to connect with each-other, trade contact info, and link to actual CP in the comments. I can consistently get access to it from vanilla, never-before-used Youtube accounts via innocuous videos in less than ten minutes, in sometimes less than five clicks. Additionally, I have video evidence that these videos are being monetized by Youtube, brands like McDonald’s, Lysol, Disney, Reese’s, and more.”

In his report, Watson demonstrates in real-time how users can use the comment section on YouTube to identify sexually suggestive videos involving young girls. YouTube’s algorithm, Watson shows, will then begin recommending similar videos.

“This loophole is wrong, something needs to be done,” Watson says in the video’s description. “It’s being monetized. CP is being traded as well as social media and WhatsApp addresses. Youtube is facilitating this problem. It doesn’t matter that they flag videos and turn off the comments, these videos are still being monetized, and more importantly they are still available for users to watch.”

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(Read more from “WATCH: Disney, Nestle Pull YouTube Ads After This Viral Video Exposes ‘Pedophilia Ring'” HERE)

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Popular Youtuber Attacks Christian Teen

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You’d be forgiven for never having heard of YouTuber Cinnamon Toast Ken. According to YouTube.Wikia, he’s risen to internet fame by uploading gaming videos. He has also (somehow) managed to garner over 3 million followers on Twitter, despite posting some despicable cyberbullying videos, including one mocking a teen girl because of her love for Jesus.

In one video titled, “Crazy Girl Obsessed With Jesus,” Ken relentlessly picks on Christian YouTuber Emma Mae Jenkins, mocking her appearance and scoffing at her religious convictions . . .

In one of her video blogs, Emma Mae Jenkins explained her morning routine, which consists of prayer and worship.

I get bullied because of how much I am so recklessly in love with Jesus. I get laughed at for the way that I smile, and I get mocked for how my voice sounds…but to be a daughter of the King//to be a child of God means to love those who hate you. It means to pray for those who persecute you. It means to bless those who curse you. I would not be living the life worthy of the calling that God has called me to live if I only loved those who love me in return. To be a beloved of the Most High means to pick up my cross and follow Him because He loved us all expecting nothing in return. I am smiling in such humble response to the joy that the Lord has overflowed my cup with!! New blog post up about the sweet grace that has called us to live a higher standard and love unconditionally in JOY! The link is in my bio and I pray that this blesses your heart! I surely do love you!!❤️

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“I do this because in Mark 1:35, it says that ‘Jesus, waking up very early in the morning, he went to a very quiet place, and there he prayed.’ Jesus lived in such a way that we are called to live as he did,” she says, which incidentally is some pretty solid advice.

Cinnamon Toast Ken later posted his own commentary on the video, saying that he agrees we should live like Jesus before immediately contradicting himself and mocking faith. (Read more from “Popular Youtuber Attacks Christian Teen” HERE)

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