YouTube Censors The Kennedy Beacon, Sends Us to ‘School’

By Frances Scott, The Kennedy Beacon

By Frances Scott, The Kennedy Beacon

“There was no time in history where the people censoring free speech were the good guys.” 

– Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Bill Maher’s podcast

We just got schooled, y’all. 

YouTube wants The Kennedy Beacon podcast hosts to get our minds right: they claim we violated their mysteriously, unspecified Community Guidelines. So, they sent us to ‘school.’ Here we are trying to be good students. 

For our speech crimes, YouTube suspended our ability to post for a few months and offered our administrators the chance to undergo Community Guidelines training, presumably to keep us from losing our channel for good. How considerate.

Those making policy decisions for corporations, NGOs, nations, and our world are sly. Knowing they can’t just end free speech overtly – obviously and suddenly – they’re taking a different approach. They’re trying to get us to surrender it ourselves, voluntarily. 

Over the past couple months, YouTube gave the American Values 2024 channel a warning and a first strike for two videos. One included Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at a hearing (wait for it) … on censorship. The other was a Zoom call with a large group of people from the African American community. 

YouTube doesn’t specify which words have sent a channel to YouTube jail. We were told our videos violated their policy on “medical misinformation,” which seems to mean saying something inconsistent with the World Health Organization’s positions. . 

Quick questions: Who decided that the WHO determines the truth about health care and medical issues? Who runs the WHO? Who funds it? Who funds the NGOs that contribute to its coffers? The US pays the largest sums, but poke around a bit and notice who else has significant influence. Investigate the entities you don’t immediately recognize and learn about who supports – aka funds and influences – them.

Here’s what my YouTube reeducation taught me: (1) We can’t say anything on YouTube that threatens Big Pharma. (2) It’s time to leave YouTube and all platforms that censor. 

We recorded the Community Guidelines training and posted it here. Watch it, share it, and pay close attention to the way YouTube is trying to train us to self-censor – one of the first steps people take down the long, shadowy, slow road to totalitarianism. 

YouTube is selling our attention to advertisers. When we walk away, it loses both money and its power over us. If enough of us do so, we have the power to put these out-of-control genies back in their bottles.

Although it’s YouTube that’s censoring us, in light of the fact that the White House encouraged social media sites to censor what Americans posted during COVID – as we now know, thanks to the Twitter Files, Berenson v. Twitter, and Missouri v. Biden – we have to ask whether a “public-private partnership” exists between our government and companies like YouTube. It’s also time we refresh ourselves on the definition of the word corporatocracy.

If corporatocracy is not what we want, we must refuse to self-censor. We have to literally turn away from every platform trying to train us to do so. A population trained to self-censor works like the medium in a Petri dish. Terrible things grow easily in it.

We need to listen to dissenting voices, whether we agree with them or not, and think about what we can learn from their willingness to keep speaking up, even when the rest of the world says they’re wrong.

Journalists tell us that Americans don’t care about censorship, the implication being that we no longer care about free speech or perhaps even the democracy its existence upholds. If that’s true, America may be lost already. But just in case they’re wrong, please never stop speaking your truth, no matter the cost.

Don’t let them scare you. Talk openly and publicly about what you see, especially when nobody else seems to agree. There are others who do agree; they’re just too scared to speak up. Your words will begin to awaken their courage.

Say your truth loudly and often. Say it in spite of the fear you might feel while doing so. The more of us who adopt this mindset and act accordingly, the better chance we’ll have at beating back those who are trying to silence us.