A speech by former Cabinet minister and Tory leadership contender David Davis MP against vaccine passports has been wiped from YouTube for “contradict[ing] expert consensus”.
The leading British politician, who served as Britain’s inaugural Secretary of State for Brexit, made the speech — still available on Facebook, at least for now — at a Big Brother Watch fringe event at the recent party conference in Manchester, promoting vaccination but warning against vaccine passports as “illiberal, demanding that we an ordinary British citizen produce our papers to do something which is normal in our daily lives.”
However, Big Brother Watch, a civil liberties pressure group with a focus on resisting government overreach, reports that the speech has now been erased from the world’s biggest video sharing platform for “medical misinformation”.
Big Brother Watch says that the tech giant “did not specify what content had breached the rules”, but that it received a notification explaining that “YouTube doesn’t allow claims about COVID-19 vaccinations that contradict expert consensus from local health authorities or the World Health Organization (WHO).”
