YouTube suspends Ron Johnson from uploading videos for seven days over hydroxychloroquine claims YouTube removed video Friday, citing its 'medical misinformation' policy

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., has been suspended from uploading videos to YouTube for seven days and had a video of a speech talking about early treatments to COVID-19 removed by the video-sharing giant.

The video removal and upload ban came after two videos of Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearings he led on early experimental treatments to the novel coronavirus, such as hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin.

Johnson told Fox News that "YouTube's ongoing COVID censorship proves they have accumulated too much unaccountable power."

"Big Tech and mainstream media believe they are smarter than medical doctors who have devoted their lives to science and use their skills to save lives," Johnson said. "They have decided there is only one medical viewpoint allowed, and it is the viewpoint dictated by government agencies. How many lives will be lost as a result? How many lives could have been saved with a free exchange of medical ideas?"

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"Government-sanctioned censorship of ideas and speech should concern us all," Johnson added.

A spokesperson for YouTube told Fox News the website took down the video because it violated its COVID-19 "medical misinformation policies."

"We removed the video in accordance with our COVID-19 medical misinformation policies, which don’t allow content that encourages people to use Hydroxychloroquine or Ivermectin to treat or prevent the virus," the spokesperson said.

"YouTube doesn't allow content that spreads medical misinformation that contradicts local health authorities’ or the World Health Organization’s (WHO) medical information about COVID-19," the policy reads.

Specifically, the company will remove content promoting the use of hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin unless there is enough countervailing context, a YouTube blog post explains.

The video in question is of a speech Johnson gave where he torched the Biden and Trump administrations for "not only ignoring but working against robust research [on] the use of cheap, generic drugs to be repurposed for early treatment of COVID" and noted he held two hearings on the matter.

"It always baffled me that there was such a concerted effort to deny the American public the type of robust exploration research into early treatment early in this pandemic," Johnson said, adding that hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin -- two drugs used in early treatments for COVID-19 -- are "incredibly safe."

Additionally, Johnson touched on testimony from one of the hearings he led that spoke about "the four pillars of pandemic response," such as preventing the virus from spreading, vaccines, hospital treatments and early treatments.

Hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin have been on the market for years and are primarily used to treat diseases like scabies and lupus.

Former President Trump touted hydroxychloroquine as an early treatment to COVID-19 for hospitalized patients, invoking scrutiny from the media.

Can he read Fauci emails online, or is that prohibited?

Kharn

Not a fan of Ron Johnson, but the rightspeak and rightthink efforts of media should frighten even the left-wingers.  Oh well, there will be a lot of money to be made building the reeducation camps, gulags, and mass graves.

How can it be misinformation if study after study have proved HCQ's effectiveness on Covid19.

It worked for me.

Misinformation doesn't go against the truth. Misinformation is when when someone says something that goes against what the lefts narrative is, regardless of truth.

Do the people making those decisions at YouTube/google have degrees in medicine or virology?    

That’s really a rhetorical question.

That was a senate hearing they removed. Think about that, official gov senate proceedings are wrong think.

Section 230 reform should have happened under Trump

Just like passing the HPA

But Republicans are too stupid and lazy to do anything of substance.

Every 6 months this ass hole cry's about something on the news. Hey Ron DO FUCKEN SOMETHING THEN!!

Fify

And the right won’t do anything about it.

“Gotta pay that mortgage and save for the kids college”

Raheem Kassam got flagged by Twitter for posting an NBC article about CCP virus vaccine side effects - but didn't flag NBC for the original post of the article.