Sen. Rand Paul Quits YouTube Over Censorship

Sen. Rand Paul announced he is quitting YouTube thanks to rampant censorship and an “almost religious adherence to the edicts of government bureaucrats.”

“Many in Congress, on the Left and the Right, want to break up or regulate Big Tech, but few of these loud voices have actually stepped up and quit using Big Tech,” Paul wrote in a Washington Examiner piece, per Fox News. “So today, I announce that I will begin an exodus from Big Tech. I will no longer post videos on YouTube unless it is to criticize them or announce that viewers can see my content on rumble.com.”

“Why begin with YouTube?,” he added. “Because they’re the worst censors.”

Paul said that whenever he posts content that challenges Biden’s COVID-19 narrative, no matter how well researched, YouTube deletes the videos. He faced account suspension for a week in August for violating the site’s COVID-19 misinformation policy in a video claiming surgical and cloth masks don’t protect against the virus.

“The gall to delete constitutionally protected speech!,” Paul wrote. “It is indeed ironic that the centos likely think of themselves as progressive but their actions are more suggestive of the diktats of the Medieval church. Think about it. In the U.S. in 2021, you are being told there are ideas or opinions that are too ‘dangerous’ for you to see. It is ‘disinformation’ they admonish, so if you want to stay on their platforms you must conform to their approved opinions.”

“About half of the public leans right,” he wrote. “If we all took our messaging to outlets of free exchange, we could cripple Big Tech in a heartbeat. So, today I take my first step toward denying my content to Big Tech. Hopefully, other liberty lovers will follow.”