10/02/2021

YOUTUBE BLOCKS CONTENT : ANTI-VACCINE



Washington : YouTube will block all anti-vaccine content - moving beyond its ban on false information about the COVID vaccines to include content that contains misinformation about other approved vaccines, it said in a blogpost on Wednesday.

Examples of content that won't be allowed on YouTube include claims that flu vaccines cause infertility and that the MMR shot, which protects against measles, mumps and rubella, can cause autism, according to YouTube's policies.

The online video company owned by Alphabet Inc is also banning channels associated with several prominent anti-vaccine activists including Robert F. Kennedy Jr, and Joseph Mercola, a YouTube spokesperson said.

A press email for Mercola's website said in a statement :

''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." [ Reuters ]

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