Sky News Australia forced into submission, removes COVID-related videos

YouTube last week suspended Sky News Australia from uploading videos to their video channel that reaches over 1.8 million subscribers. YouTube claimed the content could "could cause real-world harm", and that the videos in question "did not provide sufficient countervailing context." Sky News Digital Editor Jack Houghton wrote a response to YouTube's censorship saying, "Among the videos deemed unpalatable for societal consumption were debates around whether masks were effective and whether lockdowns were justified when considering their adverse health outcomes. The science is certainly not clear on either of these two points." The article continues, "For example, at the beginning of the pandemic the World Health Organization discouraged the use of lockdowns to treat small outbreaks and instead argued they should be used to ease the burden of hospitalizations on health systems running out of beds. This is certainly not how Australia is handling the situation." Pointing out the hypocrisy of questioning changing government policies, Houghton wrote, "I am yet to be informed of President Joe Biden’s YouTube and Facebook ban after uttering this false sentence: 'You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations.'” Concluding his objection to censorship based on ridged criteria in an everchanging world, Houghton, wrote "If that conversation is stifled our political leaders will be free to act with immunity, without justification and lacking any sufficient scrutiny from the public. Your freedom to think will be extinguished." Yesterday, Sky News quietly deleted over 30 videos and declined to comment. Adding to the pressure from YouTube, Sky News representatives were being called before Australia's Senate to answer questions about other "misinformation". In this case, the "misinformation" was reports on Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine are now scientifically proven successful treatments of COVID.