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Pollak: Big Tech, Establishment Media Crush Free Speech Through a Form of Prior Restraint<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Big tech and mainstream media have joined forces to crush free speech and press freedom. Not only are they censoring alternative medical views on coronavirus, but they are also censoring news outlets that happen to cover those views.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Monday night, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube (owned by Google) took down video from a Facebook live stream of a press conference on coronavirus in Washington, DC, by a group of doctors that was covered by Breitbart News that day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The press conference was held by a group called America\u2019s Frontline Doctors, which was organized and sponsored by the Tea Party Patriots. The press conference featured doctors talking about their own views about the treatment of coronavirus or COVID-19, sometimes presenting perspectives that are not featured by the \u201cexperts\u201d making policy for the country. Some talked about hydroxychloroquine; others touted the scientific case for reopening schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One doctor, Stella Immanuel, a Nigerian immigrant, argued passionately for hydroxychloroquine (plus zinc and azithromycin), saying she had personally treated hundreds of patients with it. She called hydroxychloroquine a \u201ccure.\u201d The video went viral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times <\/em>columnist Kevin Roose drew attention to the video, noting: \u201cBreitbart could claim it was just covering a newsworthy press conference.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n