YouTube suspends Rand Paul for seven days

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Source: CNN

Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, has been suspended from YouTube for seven days over a video claiming that masks are ineffective in fighting Covid-19, according to a YouTube spokesperson.

"This resulted in a first strike on the channel, which means it can't upload content for a week, per our longstanding three strikes policy," the spokesperson said. "We apply our policies consistently across the platform, regardless of speaker or political views, and we make exceptions for videos that have additional context such as countervailing views from local health authorities."

Paul criticized the decision by YouTube in a tweet on Tuesday.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/11/tech/rand-paul-youtube-suspension/index.html

[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. This makes me smile

Link to tweet

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[PSPS]

6. Sorry. What you are saying is not "constitutionally protected speech"

That comes into play only if you, the public actor, attempts to compel them, the private actor, to carry your lies or anything else, even truthful statements. And that's infringing on their (the public actor's) free speech (control their own private platform.)

I know he's doing this just for MAGA, but you'd think an ostensibly educated person would change his shtick once in a while.

[cstanleytech]

9. Ya, Paul is a moron as the 1st only applies to the government interfering in free speech

but it does not require any private media platform to carry said speech.

[AllaN01Bear]

2. cue the censership card in 3-2-1.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. YouTube is not a state actor

[Klondike Kat]

14. This

N/T

[NurseJackie]

19. I love this. Thank you!

[niyad]

3. As KO used to point out regularly on Countdown, the First Amendment refers to

GOVERNMENT controlling/censoring speech. Nothing in the First Amendment mentions a privately owned enterprise. One would think/hope that a sItting US senator would be acquainted with this tiny little fact.

[Grokenstein]

7. He seems to have a severe allergic reaction to facts

and reality in general.

[cstanleytech]

10. He's a moron much like the people that support him.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

8. Fucking quack. With a porno fro.

[BumRushDaShow]

11. Good

Muzzling FUCKER RON PAUL'S SPAWN should have happened years ago.

And if he starts tweeting the bullshit, start the suspensions there too.

[twodogsbarking]

12. He's a gonna beat y'all up for that.

Get your rakes ready.

[bucolic_frolic]

13. Seems angry most of the time

Dad is folksy. Wonder what went wrong?

[Talitha]

15. They do it to themselves, and then play the victim... rinse and repeat.

[FakeNoose]

16. I'm hoping it's the Youtube users who are reporting him

... that's how it should work anyway. His video is incorrect and dangerous because it's spreading lies and bad info. The fact that he's using his position as a U.S. Senator in doing this is even more offensive. If enough YouTube users report an inappropriate or offensive clip, then YouTube will usually do something about it.

[Paladin]

17. Outstanding move by YouTube.

If Rand Paul doesn't like it, he ought to fuck himself until things get better.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

18. This makes me smile

Link to tweet

[SpankMe]

20. Rand Paul should put his theory to the test

If "cloth masks don't work" in preventing infection, and if he believes that "...actual science...tells us that cloth masks don't work...", then I propose that the next time he needs surgery, all of the operating room staff - surgeon, assisting surgeon, nurses, everyone - go bare-faced for his operation.

Would he be comfortable with that, knowing that they're breathing and coughing into his open wound?

What is wrong with these people?

[Bayard]

21. He will use this as a badge of courage

I truly hope Booker stomps his ass next year.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

22. "Fauci Says It Is Safe to Watch YouTube Now That Rand Paul Has Been Suspended" (

I love good satire

Link to tweet

[BComplex]

23. Rand Paul is a freak.

He's just a freak. How in the world does he ever get elected to public office?