YouTube Changes Policy, Bans Mercola Within Hours
Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola Fact Checked
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October 04, 2021
STORY
AT-A-GLANCE
· September 29, 2021, YouTube
banned and deleted our channel, and the channels of several others, including
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for violating the community guidelines they implemented
that morning, despite having no warnings or violations this entire year
· Earlier that day, September
29, YouTube updated its community guidelines with an expansion of its already
existing policy on medical misinformation. Whereas before the policy had
focused on alleged misinformation relating specifically to the COVID shots, the
expanded policy now includes ALL vaccines
· It’s a deviously brilliant
move. Just change the rules to match the (previously compliant) content of the
individuals you want to remove, and provide users no time to remain in
compliance
· The Washington Post, which
broke the story, clearly had foreknowledge that the updated rules would result
in our channel being deleted and censored
· This is a blatant
illustration of how government, technocrat-led nongovernmental organizations,
social media platforms and media collude and coordinate attacks to censor
people and organizations with whom they do not agree, or who pose a threat to
their propaganda narrative
September 29,
2021, YouTube banned and deleted our channel, and the channels of several
others, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for violating its community
guidelines. This despite the fact that
much of our content has been up for over a decade and never had any complaints
from YouTube.
As you will see
below, this is a blatant example of how
government, technocratically-led nongovernmental organizations, social media
platforms and media collude and coordinate attacks to censor people and
organizations with whom they do not agree, or who pose a threat to their highly
effective propaganda narrative.
YouTube’s New Policy
Earlier that
day, September 29, YouTube updated its community guidelines with an expansion
of its already existing policy on medical misinformation. Whereas before the
policy had focused on alleged misinformation relating specifically to the COVID
shots, the expanded policy now includes ALL vaccines.
In a nutshell,
as of September 29, 2021, you cannot post any video discussing or stating that
ANY vaccine is dangerous or ineffective. As stated in the updated policy:1
“We’ve steadily seen false claims about the
coronavirus vaccines spill over into misinformation about vaccines in general,
and we're now at a point where it's more important than ever to expand the work
we started with COVID-19 to other vaccines.
Specifically, content that falsely alleges that
approved vaccines are dangerous and cause chronic health effects, claims that
vaccines do not reduce transmission or contraction of disease, or contains
misinformation on the substances contained in vaccines will be removed.
This would include content that falsely says that
approved vaccines cause autism, cancer or infertility, or that substances in
vaccines can track those who receive them. Our policies not only cover specific
routine immunizations like for measles or Hepatitis B, but also apply to general
statements about vaccines.”
YouTube does
grant some exceptions to its new censorship rules, which in now-classic
Orwellian double-speak are granted in the spirit of keeping “public discussion
and debate to the scientific process” alive.
Vaccine content
that will remain allowable includes discussions about “vaccine policies, new
vaccine trials, and historical vaccine successes or failures,” as well as
personal testimonials relating to vaccines — as long as the channel “doesn't
show a pattern of promoting vaccine hesitancy.”
YouTube Changes Policy and
Immediately Deletes My Channel
While the
update notice states it’ll take some time to fully ramp up enforcement of these
new guidelines, YouTube clearly had their sights set on booting certain
individuals right from the start. They viewed me as such a major threat that
they had to create new rules to “legitimately” censor me because they could not
do it with their existing rules, which I never violated.
That same day,
within hours of announcing the new rules, YouTube banned our channel and
deleted all our videos without warning.
It’s a devious
move, really. Just change the rules to match the (previously compliant) content
of the individuals you want to remove, and provide users no time to remain in
compliance by removing content that might be in violation.
Going forward,
being compliant is not enough — you must be predictively compliant and ensure
your videos don’t violate some future policy that may be dreamt up in a moment
without notice. What happened next clearly demonstrates coordinated collusion
between a number of players.
For starters,
YouTube admits the new policy was developed after consulting with local and
international health organizations. That most likely includes the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and
the World Health Organization. I wouldn’t be surprised if one or more of Bill
Gates’ vaccine-focused organizations, such as GAVI, were also consulted.
Several U.S.
government officials have also gone on record singling me out as a leading threat
to the COVID jab campaign, which is really just a front for a much larger and
far more important agenda, namely the The Great Reset agenda. Make no mistake,
this censorship is about money and geopolitical control, not public health.
WaPo Journalist Had
Foreknowledge of the Ban
Just after 9
a.m. September 29, 2021, a journalist with the
Washington Post contacted my media department, asking for a comment on
YouTube’s takedown of my channel.
The article was
embargoed, which means the journalist had already been told my channel was
being removed due to the new rules, and the article was probably already
written by the time they contacted me. WaPo broke the story at 9:35 a.m.,
stating in part:2
“In an email, Mercola said he was being censored
and said, without presenting evidence, that vaccines had killed many people ...
More than a third of the world’s population has been vaccinated and the
vaccines have been proven to be overwhelmingly safe.”
Of course, WaPo didn’t
present any evidence that the COVID shots are “overwhelmingly safe” either. In
fact, the hyperlink goes to the CDC’s COVID-19 Reported Adverse Events page,3 which
lists warnings for anaphylaxis, thrombosis with thrombocytopenia and
Guillain-Barre syndrome after the Janssen shot, myocarditis and pericarditis
after the Pfizer and Moderna shots, and death following all three.
Once WaPo
published its article, others followed. Reuters at least included an entire
sentence of the statement we sent in response to media inquiries:4
“A press email for Mercola's website said … ‘We are united across the world, we will not
live in fear, we will stand together and restore our freedoms.’
Kennedy said in a statement: ‘There is no instance in history when censorship and secrecy has
advanced either democracy or public health.’”
A Coordinated Attack on
Freedom of Speech
The collective
actions of government, Big Tech and media clearly show this was a coordinated
attack on the freedom of speech of ordinary Americans. Government officials
have publicly admitted they are coordinating censorship with Big Tech
platforms, which, by the way, is illegal.
YouTube, which
is owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet, now suddenly changes its medical
misinformation rules after consulting with local and international “health
authorities,” and immediately takes down the channels of the very people
identified by those same government officials as the prime targets for
censorship.
Media — at
least one of which had foreknowledge of YouTube’s policy change and the imminent
removal of our channel — then contacts us for comment, leaving virtually no
time for response.
This, by the
way, is a classic media tactic used in hit pieces. By not leaving time for a response, they can make you look guilty of
just about anything. To many, refusing to respond comes across as not
having a good defense or explanation.
Still, despite issuing a comprehensive response, the media didn’t include it. WaPo went so far as to misrepresent what little of my response they did include, as I specifically cited Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS) data, which is indeed evidence that these shots are killing “many” people.
I don’t know about you, but
to me, 15,386 reported deaths following COVID “vaccination” (as of September
17, 20215) cannot be shrugged off as insignificant.
Dark Money Front Group
Takes Credit for Ban
The Washington
Post article cites the now-infamous “Disinformation Dozen”6 report conjured up by
the Centre for Countering Digital Hate
(CCDH) and AntiVaxWatch.org. — the same report that has been debunked and
refuted by Facebook itself.7
One really
wonders how the media manages to avoid the question regarding the lack of transparency
of these groups, especially the
completely anonymous AntiVaxWatch.org. The CCDH is no better, however. Not only is it run by an unregistered foreign agent, Imran Ahmed, it
also appears to be funded by “dark money,” meaning by people and organizations
whose identities are shielded or not released.
“Who is funding this overseas dark money
group — Big Tech? Billionaire activists? Foreign governments? We have no
idea,” Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley said in a July 20, 2021, tweet,8 adding “Americans
deserve to know what foreign interests are attempting to influence American
democracy.”
Indeed, the
CCDH appears to have been created for the purpose of political hit jobs. Its
chairman, Simon Clark, is a senior fellow with the Center for American
Progress,9 which is funded by
dark money from a liberal Swiss billionaire named Hansjörg Wyss.10,11 Wyss is also a board
member of the Center for American Progress.
According to
Capital Research, through his funding of a Washington, D.C., consultant firm
called Arabella Advisors, which allows his identity to be obscured, Wyss has
been secretly influencing American policy.12,13 Reporter Hayden
Lidwig has also described the inner workings of Arabella Advisors and the
influence of the “dark money” flowing through it, noting that Arabella runs a:14
“… vast array of ‘pop-up groups’ … called so
because they consist almost solely of slick websites that may pop into
existence one day and pop out the next, usually once the campaign is through.”
It’s no surprise then that
the CCDH, AntiVaxWatch and Arabella founder Eric Kessler are all applauding
and/or taking credit for their role in YouTube’s takedown of the channels
identified in the “Disinformation Dozen” report.
The Fight for Truth Continues
While the loss
of our YouTube channel is regrettable, it’s not the end of the world. We’ve been preparing for this eventuality,
and have been transitioning to other platforms such as BitChute and Rumble already. The fact that YouTube had
to use underhanded tactics just to have an excuse to get rid of us only proves
how compliant we had actually been all along.
This takedown also shows
how coordinated these attacks are. No one acts alone. All the checks and
balances have been removed and they’re all working together, which is why it’s
so difficult to persist under this kind of regime. But persist we shall.
- Sources
and References
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1 YouTube Blog September 29, 2021
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2 Washington Post September 29, 2021
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3 CDC COVID-19 Adverse Events Reports
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4 Yahoo News September 29, 2021
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5 OpenVAERS September 17, 2021
Statistics
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6 CCDH, The Disinformation Dozen
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8 Twitter Josh Hawley July 20, 2021
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9 Center for American
Progress Simon Clark
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10 New York Times May 3, 2021
(Archived)
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11, 12 Capital Research May 3, 2021
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13 InfluenceWatch Arabella Advisors
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14 The American Conservative May 12,
2021
