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A judge from the court of Amsterdam ruled that YouTube is not allowed to delete content critical of the WHO and the RIVM (Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment). The judge said that YouTube "as a large online platform has a responsibility in the public debate"

The judge said YouTube does not have to put deleted videos back up if "opinions are conveyed as facts". And that YouTube can delete videos that claim HCQ works, because the judge deemed it "potentially harmful misinformation". This is strange to me because information from the WHO is also potentially harmful and they also convey their 'expert' opinions as facts.

Basically this means the entire ruling is pointless as any expert viewpoint can be labeled as "opinion portrayed as fact" or as "potentially harmful misinformation". Still it is a step in the right direction as the judge did rule that YouTube cannot just arbitrarily delete videos. No "BuT iT iS a PrIvAtE cOmPaNy" crap.

Interesting detail: only 70 people in the Netherlands died from the wu-flu alone. About 1% of the total 6249 wu-flu deaths (365 deaths per million).

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