YouTube’s Censorship of Dissenting Doctors Will Backfire

Sheltering the public from ideas, even bad ones, weakens society’s immunity against error

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YouTube has been removing videos of a press briefing in which two doctors criticize the sweeping “shelter-at-home” edicts that governments have imposed throughout the world in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. One of the videos had over 5 million views before it was taken down.