- Issue: May 20, 2020 Google Drive takes down user’s personal copy of Judy Mikovits’ Plandemic after it was flagged by The Washington Post
- By Tom Parker <https://reclaimthenet.org/author/tomparker/> - https://reclaimthenet.org/google-drive-takes-down-user-file-plandemic/ Google is now applying its controversial coronavirus misinformation policies to users' personal files. If you're tired of censorship subscribe to Reclaim The Net. <https://reclaimthenet.org/subscribe> Ever since Big Tech platforms started cracking down on what they deem to be coronavirus misinformation, the media has been willfully flagging alleged violations to social media companies and getting content taken down. And now the file storage and sharing service Google Drive has started to take down users’ files in response to media complaints about them containing coronavirus misinformation. In an article reporting on the takedown <https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/05/20/misinformation-coronavirus-plandemic-workaround/>, The Washington Post’s Silicon Valley Correspondent Elizabeth Dwoskin complains that after the coronavirus documentary Plandemic was censored on social media <https://reclaimthenet.org/plandemic-youtube-removed-judy-mikovits-mikki-willis/>, some YouTube clips were telling users how to access “banned footage” from the documentary via Google Drive. She then notes that after The Washington Post contacted Google, Google Drive took down a file featuring the trailer for the Plandemic documentary. <https://reclaim.link/brave-mid> Double your web browsing speed with today's sponsor. Get Brave <https://reclaim.link/brave-mid>. Dwoskin frames users sharing files containing the Plandemic trailer with each other as: “A wave of seemingly countless workarounds employed by people motivated to spread misinformation about the virus — efforts that continue to thwart social media companies’ attempts at preventing hoaxes and conspiracy theories from spreading amid the greatest public health crisis in decades.” Dwoskin also writes that The Washington Post reported 12 videos to YouTube, 61 Facebook posts and Instagram links to Facebook, and 24 videos to TikTok for featuring the Plandemic trailer. In response, YouTube removed five of the videos, Facebook removed nine of the posts, and TikTok said it removed most of the videos. The Plandemic trailer isn’t the only file that’s been censored on Google Drive in recent months. *Click on the link for the rest.* -- 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/CAGxB6W9DV9kZg0L6%2B8kDqyoTbC5-uMA0UNPRJOoTCV8N%2Bsv2zA%40mail.gmail.com.
