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A step too far?

Yesterday I uploaded a video to a new YouTube channel I created.

Why did I start a new channel when I already have three going?

Well I wanted to create an area where I could be more opinionated (if that's possible) and to discuss issues that aren't related to drones, technology or the subjects I already cover. It was to be pretty much a video version of Aardvark.

When I got to my desk at around 4am this morning I discovered that the video I'd uploaded had been taken down as a breach of the community guidelines.

WTF?

What was this video about and what was so horrifying about it that YouTube decided it was not allowed on their platform?

Well it was all about freedom of choice and accepting that everyone is different.

I told viewers that I was triple-vaxxed and happy with my decision but that I respected the fact that others may have made different choices in regards to vaccination. We should, I suggested, be willing to accept that different people have different outlooks, opinions and perspective.

If we don't respect the freedoms we have then we risk losing them.

I also explained that it appears as if omicron could well be the variant of CV19 that auto-immunises the population, even the anti-vaxxers, against the more deadly strains of the virus. This is a position held by a great many medical professionals and epidemiologists.

I was not advocating an anti-vax stance (because I'm not an anti-vaxxer) but simply stating that we must all respect the choices made by others and that regardless of the sensibility of those choices and opinions, we should fiercely protect our right to differ from one another.

Well it seems that none of this fits the YouTube narrative so the video is gone.

There is no longer any room on YouTube for any content that is not perfectly aligned with YouTube's own social engineering I guess.

This should be an incredibly worrying thing to everyone, in fact it's downright scary!

Perception is reality and billions of people obtain their view of the world via social media platforms these days. When those platforms choose to sculpt and shape that view to suit their own agendas and beliefs then they become more powerful than god himself.

While worldly-wise people like myself can ignore the stuff (such as wokeism) that is clearly an attempt to socially engineer the world, those who are younger, more naive or perhaps somewhat challenged can easily be molded in a way that gives those doing the shaping immense control.

Forget the pandemic, I'm starting to think that modern social media platforms are a far more existential threat to our society.

To date I've sort of stood back a little and gone "hmmmm" whenever governments talk about regulating these huge internet platforms. As regular readers will know, I'm not a great fan of regulation since it is a somewhat blunt weapon that is vulnerable to abuse. However, in this instance, I really am starting to believe that we ought to set these two bullies on each other. Social media giants versus the bureaucratic golliath that is government regulation -- it'd be a great fight and would keep them both out of our hair for a while.

In the meantime I may consider a change of career path. I feel kind of "dirty" supporting a platform that would be so blatant in its attempts to control the population's thoughts and perspectives through suppression of honest opinion and a positive message.

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