YouTube Nukes My Interview with ex-President of Iran

7000-word discussion with Ahmadinejad scrubbed due to 46 words on COVID vaccines

My main YouTube channel was nuked on October 10, 2022 after an 11-year run, allegedly because the thousands of hours of programming contained a couple of remarks by my radio guests that violated YouTube’s rules against medical misinformation and questioning election integrity. Fortunately, AltCensored saved a backup, so you can still watch the videos.

Now I post most of my videos on Rumble and BitChute. But I maintain a secondary YouTube channel as a place to post things that clearly do not violate any of YouTube’s ridiculous rules—mostly my interviews with international media.

But today YouTube managed to ferret out a violation. I got an email this morning telling me my roundtable interview with Iran’s former president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, had been taken down due to “medical misinformation,” specifically violating YouTube’s ban on “Claims that contradict health authority and World Health Organization guidance on safety, efficacy and ingredients of currently administered and approved vaccines.”

I didn’t remember discussing vaccine safety with Dr. Ahmadinejad. So I read through the 7000-word transcript to refresh my memory. As it turns out, I found 46 terrible, evil, awful words on the subject, words so dangerous that the entire interview needed to be scrubbed from the record. To wit, one of the roundtable participants, Scott Bennett, said:

“Big pharma companies are using the vaccine to destroy humans in the future. Everyone supports the idea that the vaccines are destructive for the human body and are biological weapons which will permanently affect the human body and can make wounds like different types of cancers.”

Scott, of course, is wrong. Not everyone supports that idea. But is that grounds for scrubbing the entire video?

Why did YouTube suddenly detect Scott’s offending words and nuke the video now, a year-and-a-half late? There are two possibilities. One is that the ADL got wind that I had just interviewed Holocaust revisionist Germar Rudolf (on Rumble and Bitchute, of course) and messaged YouTube: “Go over Barrett’s stuff with a fine-tooth comb and find something to scrub.” And YouTube obediently sicced its AI on me.

That seems unlikely. The other possibility is that YouTube’s AI censor-bot is working overtime, 24/7/365, to sift through everything that’s ever been posted in search of even minor or arcane violations, and that it finally just happened upon my year-and-a-half old interview.

But that, too, is crazy. Is YouTube really going to take down every video of round table discussions, school board meetings, man-on-the-street interviews, talk shows, seminars, and so on if even a few words, a few seconds out of hours of programming, contradict what the WHO says about vaccines?

What’s more, the whole notion of banning all anti-vax words is ludicrous. How could anyone possibly refute the arguments of vaccine skeptics if we’re not allowed to know what those arguments are?

Scott Bennett’s remark, agree with it or not, is hardly going to spark a stampede of people refusing vaccines. Even if the WHO were right about the vax—and it almost certainly isn’t, since the evidence for net benefit is so weak—censoring Dr. Ahmadinejad’s roundtable due to a few anti-WHO words spoken by one of four participants would be preposterous.

The insane level of censorship directed at critics of the COVID-19 vaccines, like the equally insane censorship directed against Holocaust revisionists like Germar Rudolf, provides a very strong prima facie argument that those banned voices are right. The only reason I can think of for such grotesquely excessive censorship is that the censored material is so obviously true that the other side knows it can’t win a fair argument.

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