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YouTube takes down second Rand Paul COVID video and suspends him from posting 
for a week
 

Emily Brooks
Tue, August 10, 2021, 5:39 PM·2 min read
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Sen. Rand Paul is fuming after YouTube censored the second one of his videos 
for violating community guidelines on COVID-19 and suspended him from posting 
more videos for a week.

“They are now banning all my speech, including speech that is given on the 
Senate floor, which is protected constitutional,” the Kentucky Republican 
senator told reporters on Tuesday. “YouTube now thinks they are smart enough 
and godly enough that they can oversee speech, even constitutionally 
protected speech.”

YouTube last week removed a video of an interview the Kentucky Republican 
senator did on Newsmax.

Paul discussed his suspicions about the origins of the coronavirus, his feud 
with Anthony Fauci over what funding for research in China’s Wuhan lab came 
from the United States, and argued that most face coverings do not help stop 
the spread of the virus.

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Paul, an eye doctor, then recorded, and on Aug. 3 uploaded, a second video 
chastising YouTube for taking down the video and promoted one of its 
competitors, Rumble. He defended his comments on masks.

“Saying cloth masks work, when they don’t, actually risks lives, as someone 
may choose to care for a loved one with COVID while only wearing a cloth 
mask. This is not only bad advice but also potentially deadly 
misinformation,” Paul said in the video.

YouTube responded by taking down that video as well, saying that it violated 
YouTube’s community guidelines. On Tuesday, Paul’s office said that the 
company imposed a seven-day ban from posting more videos.

YouTube did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

This is not the first time Paul has faced censorship from YouTube. In 2019, 
the company took down a video that the senator uploaded in which he mentioned 
on the Senate floor the name of the alleged whistleblower, whose concern 
about former President Donald Trump’s call with the Ukrainian president led 
to his first impeachment.

Paul acknowledged that YouTube, as a private company, has a right to ban them 
if they want to but said that YouTube is acting as “an arm of the government 
without any repercussions or push back.”

“It is really anti-free speech, anti-progress of science, which involves 
skepticism and argumentation to arrive at the truth,” Paul said. “YouTube and 
Google, though, have become an entity so huge that they think they are the 
arbitrator of truth.”