Rand Paul quits YouTube in protest against censorship by Big Tech

Original oped from Rand Paul: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonexaminer.com&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;op-eds&#x2F;my-new-years-resolution-im-quitting-youtube" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonexaminer.com&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;op-eds&#x2F;my-new-yea...</a><p>&gt; Any time I state that cloth masks do not stop the virus from spreading, as in this Denmark study, Florida school comparison, and Vietnamese study, YouTube deletes the video<p>Worth pointing out that the Vietnamese study indicated that <i>surgical</i> masks were actually quite effective, and that the Denmark study didn&#x27;t actually focus on cloth masks whatsoever.

Good. We don&#x27;t need any deviation from the truth.

Censorship? Lmao. If a restaurant kicks me out, they aren’t starving me. The internet is open. Make your own blog.

Good.

Quitting is the wrong move.<p>Proposing wide-sweeping legislation to force publishers to act like publishers and censor all content, or to leave content up to users and not censor anything.<p>It&#x27;s this duplicitous approach these companies use that is generating all of the controversy.<p>It&#x27;s time to propose a regulatory body and start censoring the internet publishers. It&#x27;s time to propose a gross-revenue percentage fine for these mega-companies as well.<p>We need to have companies that violate regulations fined with gross-revenue percentage fines. Something in the neighborhood of 10% of the average of past 5 years gross revenue, and the fine last for a minimum of a decade. The fines should be levied against the assets of a company, like a lien so that they cannot simply dissolve the company to avoid the fine. All assets would be attached by the fine, so the fines would &#x2F;always&#x2F; be paid.<p>Time to gut these mega-corps. Time to force them to comply with basic human decency standards. Time for them to pay the piper.