YouTube shuts down Dilbert creator Scott Adams

Google-owned YouTube shut down Dilbert Comic strip creator Scott Adams on Friday, stripping a video off the platform from the podcaster’s channel without warning.

“Google (YouTube) just shut me down,” Adams wrote on Twitter featuring a screenshot of the message from YouTube. “The video they deleted is no different from all of my other content. I assume they’ll come for the other videos soon.”

Adams, a comic-turned podcaster who describes himself as “extra provocative,” published the 1,213th episode of his show titled, “Biden COVID Plan, Swalwell’s Chinese Spy, Pelosi Still a Steaming Pile,” on YouTube before it was taken down by the internet giant.

YouTube wrote in an email to Adams the episode violated its guidelines pertaining to “spam, deceptive practices and scams policy.”

YouTube’s censorship of Adams follows a recent company announcement that it would be removing any content critical of the 2020 election process alleging widespread voter fraud tipped the outcome of the November contest.

After preemptively declaring Republican claims of deceptive voter fraud as a conspiracy remaining to be proven in court, YouTube is still host to a wide range of other dangerous conspiracies across its platform, from ideas that President Donald Trump is a Kremlin agent to the idea that aliens build the Egyptian pyramids.

https://thefederalist.com/2020/12/11/googles-youtube-shuts-down-dilbert-creator-scott-adams/

Cambridge academics win free speech row as rebels vote down university chiefs' plan to force them to be 'respectful of the diverse identities of others'

Academics voting on a new free speech policy at Cambridge University have rejected demands that views remain 'respectful', fearing this could crush freedom of expression.

In what is being seen as a victory for common sense, dons opted instead to support 'tolerance' of differing opinions.

Protecting the right to robust debate, they also decisively backed amendments making it harder for public speakers to be 'no-platformed' – or boycotted because of their views.

The changes mean the university's updated Statement on Freedom of Speech now spells out that speakers can be barred only if they are likely to use 'unlawful speech' or cause other legal problems.

A large majority of academics voted to significantly modify the proposed guidelines, which insisted on staff and students being 'respectful of the differing opinions of others'.

It comes weeks after students at Clare College tried to force a porter out of his job after he declined to support a pro-trans motion in his role as a city councillor.

The revised guidelines ensure the right to express 'controversial or unpopular opinions within the law, without fear of intolerance or discrimination'.

They will expect 'staff, students and visitors to be tolerant of the differing opinions of others'. Academics also beefed up passages against the 'no-platforming' of outside speakers, even if controversial, saying they 'must not be stopped' except on narrow legal grounds.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9037141/Victory-free-speech-Cambridge-University-Academics-reject-demand-respectful-debate.html

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