*John Kirby ends his bad news here with an important point—that you can* *have "free speech" if you just parrot the Official Line, or, if not, **as long as * *you don't reach too **many people.*
*MCM* *From John Kirby:* *Some of you might be given pause by a recent development: Our interview with Knut Wittkowski, * *for 20 years the head of biostatistics and epidemiology at Rockefeller University, has been taken * *down by YouTube for “violating community standards”. Over the span of a month and a week, * *it had reached 1.3 million views. Of course, “community standards” are never specified in these cases, but YouTube’s CEO has * *stated that anyone contradicting the (ever-changing) WHO recommendations or positions will * *be removed. Wittkowski in essence suggested that the (Swedish) approach of protecting the * *vulnerable and letting immunity spread among the rest of us, which the WHO has recently * *embraced, might have been the better response, and that the crushing of hundreds of millions * *of livelihoods will only result in more deaths across all of society. Interestingly, our follow-up interview with Wittkowski remains up. It has about 200 thousand views.I guess the lesson is that in the newest New Normal, scientific dissent and free speech are okay, * *as long as not too many people can hear you.* -- If you appreciate News From Underground, please consider making a donation — either a one-time gift or a monthly subscription: http://markcrispinmiller.com/support/ Thank you for your support. Ways to unsubscribe: 1) send a blank email to [email protected] PLEASE NOTE: you must unsubscribe using the SAME email with which you subscribed 2) go to http://groups.google.com/group/newsfromunderground and click on the "Unsubscribe or change membership" link in the yellow bar at the top of the page, then click the "Unsubscribe" button on the next page. For more News From Underground, visit http://markcrispinmiller.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "News From Underground" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/newsfromunderground/CAGxB6W_MwEiDp-nX0kuRT9kTf5zz_eVE6uH5uTcLj8cctpgD4g%40mail.gmail.com.
