YouTube Reverses Censorship Rules Regarding Discussion Of Mask Ineffectiveness

YouTube recently updated their policies. I got an email about the updates but I, like many others, didn’t read it. But if you HAD read it, and if you had read the previous version, you would have noticed an interesting change. In the section regarding “Prevention Misinformation” under their “COVID-19 medical misinformation policy,” they have suddenly removed the line prohibiting “claims that masks do not play a role in preventing the contraction or transmission of COVID-19.” Essentially, YouTube USED to censor people for discussing how masks don’t work, but now that the approved Leftist narrative accepts the fact that masks don’t work, people are once again allowed to talk about how masks don’t work.

I’ll now take this opportunity to remind everyone that YouTube suspended sitting Senator and medical doctor Rand Paul for daring to post a video in which he quoted 2 peer reviewed scholarly articles that debated the efficacy of cloth masks in preventing the contraction or transmission of COVID-19.

It didn’t matter that the science literally showed that cloth masks worn by average citizens without proper Personal Protective Equipment training do not prevent the contraction or transmission of COVID-19. The Leftist COVID narrative said that the public was only allowed to talk about how masks DO work, so anyone talking about how masks DON’T work must be censored as “misinformationists.”

The reversal of this censorship rule is as telling as the imposition of the initial censorship rule. It was never about the science. It was always about the narrative. It was never about “misinformation.” It was always about controlling the information.