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Ben Stein suspended from YouTube for discussing vaccines
Stephen Green:
Conservative economist, author, and former presidential speechwriter Ben Stein suspended from YouTube?
Yes.
The ’80s icon, if only for his fabulous cameo in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, on Saturday explained what happened:
Last night we talked about (among many other things) the Covid vaccine mandate. We all talked whether or not the vaccines worked as well as they might have been hoped to work. We also talked about why so many people who have been vaccinated seem to have come down with Covid anyway.
“But,” Stein wrote, “we all said that if our doctors approved, we would get Jab No. 3 as soon as it’s available.”
“You might think that a panel show like Stein’s, discussing the merits of vaccination, and concluding that they literally wouldn’t wait to get a third shot, would be exactly the kind of thing YouTube might promote.
But no.
Stein’s producer, Judah Friedman, called late Friday night to inform him that “he had just been notified by YouTube that they would not be showing the ‘show’ we did last night and further that we were banned from YouTube for a week.”
“Our crime,” Stein explained, was that “what we had questioned the Covid vaccine and gone against the prevailing wisdom of the experts on Covid in our area and nationally.”
Stein and his panelists all agreed that they’d get a third shot, a second booster, just as soon as their doctors approved.
In other words: It wasn’t their conclusion that YouTube objected to.
We’ve all seen examples of YouTube or the other social media giants suspending accounts, banning users, slapping a “Fake News” or whatever label on posts critical of the various COVID vaccines.
But that isn’t what YouTube did, not this time.
YouTube couldn’t have objected to the panelists’ conclusion about the efficacy or desirability of COVID vaccines or booster shots, because their conclusion fit the party-approved narrative. …
Instead, YouTube refused to air last week’s episode of The World According to Ben Stein and suspended Stein for something else.
Stein and his guests on last week’s episode of The World According to Ben Stein had the temerity, the unhinged nerve, to have an honest discussion about the merits of the various COVID vaccines.
They hashed out a vital issue then moved on to the next topic.
But we’ve reached a point where discussion is verboten.
There is no debate. There are no pros or cons. There is simply the party line, and no deviance from it, no matter how fleeting, will be permitted.
These people don’t have to huddle in a dark, secret room to conspire; they know what’s necessary and they do it, enthusiastically, and with glee.
