Meh. It won’t do much to harm the popularity of the video’s message, since Tucker Carlson was promoting “Covid vaccines dangerous!” a more than month before this video arrived. And since the video was at 350K views last I checked, I’d guess it reached 500,000 by the time it was taken down.
While “Covid vaccines killed 20,000 people!” doesn’t have good evidence behind it and, I think, will get people killed, I’m not sure taking down the video is actually helpful. Many viewers will notice that the censorship they were warned about has come to pass. Distrust of Big Tech, the MSM, and Covid vaccines will be bolstered.
But if you’re YouTube, what do you do? Get into the debunking business, post a response video? Nah—there’s no profit in it. Deleting is easy, and they don’t even have to give a clear reason.
Meh. It won’t do much to harm the popularity of the video’s message, since Tucker Carlson was promoting “Covid vaccines dangerous!” a more than month before this video arrived. And since the video was at 350K views last I checked, I’d guess it reached 500,000 by the time it was taken down.
While “Covid vaccines killed 20,000 people!” doesn’t have good evidence behind it and, I think, will get people killed, I’m not sure taking down the video is actually helpful. Many viewers will notice that the censorship they were warned about has come to pass. Distrust of Big Tech, the MSM, and Covid vaccines will be bolstered.
But if you’re YouTube, what do you do? Get into the debunking business, post a response video? Nah—there’s no profit in it. Deleting is easy, and they don’t even have to give a clear reason.