Have you heard about the video of two California ER doctors discussing the government guidelines for COVID-19? It was censored from YouTube. Tucker Carlson explained the situation very well. We have also included an excerpt from an article from Just the News about it, below the video.

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Social media giants like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter promised a new era of unfettered information, bypassing traditional media gatekeepers in the process.

People could decide for themselves what mattered most, echoing the country’s democratic ideals.

Instead, we’re now seeing tech platforms following legacy media’s lead, sometimes literally, in deciding what information we can and cannot see.

New York Times reporter Davey Alba coaxed YouTube to remove a video by Aytu BioScience regarding a possible UV light treatment for COVID19 because it “backs up Trump's idea … that UV rays kill coronavirus.”

The video site deemed the information “violated its community guidelines.”

(Lashing back on Twitter at "trolls" claiming "that my getting in touch w/ YouTube to have them take a look at @BioscienceAytu's video amounted to censoring, and suppressing a legit treatment without reporting on it," Alba said, "That's...not true.")

New and old media, once at odds for audience share and cultural relevance, are frequently acting in unison. And it’s happening during a critical election year while a pandemic runs rampant across the globe, the facts of which remain in near constant flux.

Author and Daily Wire podcaster Andrew Klavan savaged Big Tech for deciding what information we can and cannot have at our disposal.

“The difference is not between good and bad information … we need all the information so we can decide,” Klavan said on his April 29 podcast. “YouTube has no business censoring anybody. This distrust of the people, this idea that these experts know what they’re doing and the people are fools, it’s just wrong. We need all the information and we need to hear debate.”

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee cried foul after YouTube yanked a video starring two California doctors questioning the government’s stay-at-home mantra.

"These guys are medical doctors," Huckabee said on Fox News. “They are scientists. For heaven's sake, they didn't say anything that was really disputable. They were giving facts [and] figures. I thought the most salient point they made in the course of the video — which I did see before it got pulled — was that historically when you have a pandemic, you quarantine the sick people — not the healthy people. And that was sort of like, you know, the light bulb went off.”

That clip, according to Fox News personality Tucker Carlson, rang up more than 5 million views on YouTube before the site took it down.

The “critical questions” posed by the doctors are ones “we should all be asking, including and especially our policy makers,” Carlson said before paraphrasing one doctor’s summation.

“Dissent of any kind is no longer tolerated in this country,” he said. “Fact-based honesty, which is the soul of science, is under attack, even in hospitals.”

(Excerpt from Just the News. Article by Christian Toto.)