“Social media titans are defining themselves to be the experts on what content we should and shouldn’t be allowed to see ... [while] the so-called experts are regularly contradicting themselves,”

Christian Toto writes in part in Just the News,

...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 policymakers,” 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.”

...More recently, Facebook caught heat for banning posts tied to government lockdown protests. Not to be outdone, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki declared on CNN's "Reliable Sources" that pandemic-related content that would "go against World Health Organization recommendations" would be subjected to removal from the site as "a violation of our policy."

Adam Guillette, president of Accuracy in Media, says Big Tech’s allegiance to that government body comes at a curious time. The W.H.O. recently disagreed with itself, first suggesting COVID-19 survivors could get re-infected before reversing course, Guillette notes.

Earlier in the spread of the virus, The U.N. system health organization also put its authority behind the false claim of Chinese health authorities that virus was not transmissible from human to human and opposed the curbs on international travel from infected hot spots that many have credited with helping to contain the virus and spare many lives.

...The bigger issue, as Guillette sees it, are platforms acting with an unearned level of authority.

“Social media titans are defining themselves to be the experts on what content we should and shouldn’t be allowed to see ... [while] the so-called experts are regularly contradicting themselves,” he says. “In such a confusing environment it’s outrageous for sites to be censoring information.”

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