Should the opinions on COVID-19 of 40 doctors and a number of scientists and researchers who have investigated the matter be heard? Not according to a bunch of techies who wouldn’t know a virus from an iris unless the former comprised computer code. Thus did web platform Kartra “cut the cable” to an event called the “Truth Over Fear” summit after the latter had already begun streaming expert talks to its ~50,000 subscribers.
The good news is that the conference — originally slated for April 30 through May 2 — was successfully rescheduled after organizers found a “conservative friendly” hosting platform. Presentations, featuring The New American‘s own Alex Newman, are now underway, having begun today, May 7.
The organizers describe the Truth Over Fear summit on its webpage as “a three-day online gathering of 40 frontline doctors, scientists, attorneys, researchers, and journalists, who will share invaluable and eye-opening insights into the truth behind the headlines, Covid-19, the rushed vaccine, and the Great Reset.”
“Big Tech does not want you to hear this information and is working hard to censor us,” the organizers continue. “Most of our presenters have been silenced. In fact, the same day we published this summit, YouTube terminated our account and we are now shadow banned everywhere.”
As for what went down when the conference feed went down last weekend, LifeSiteNews reports:
The conference, organized by Patrick Coffin of Restore the Culture, was originally set to take place from April 30 through May 2. However, during a live presentation by Minnesota politician Scott Jensen, who was outlining the underhand financial incentives which hospitals are presented with in listing someone as having COVID-19, the website went down.
The nearly 50,000 registered viewers were left with blank screens and an error message. The site hosting platform, Kartra, which Coffin was using to host the event, reneged on the contract and left both viewers and organizers with broken internet links instead of talks.
In a press release announcing the new event, Coffin called the move “an obvious censorship attempt demonstrating the importance of the messages being presented. If there is one thing you should know about the featured speakers, it’s that the elite controllers don’t want you to hear what they have to say.”
(Interestingly, LifeSiteNews itself was just banned by Facebook for COVID “heresy” — to be precise, reportedly for sharing coronavirus vaccine mortality numbers from the government’s own VAERS [Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System] database.)
Striking here is that reneging on contracts — a bad, dishonorable business practice — has now become status quo when Big Tech deals with traditionalist groups. It’s yet another example of how we’re degenerating from a nation of laws/rules to one of men.
As for Kartra’s dishonorable actions, “The cable was cut, no explanation,” the National Catholic Register quotes organizer Coffin as saying. “To this day they haven’t explained why, beyond the vague, ‘We have to be careful about medical misinformation.’”
“The terms of service were ‘rather vague,’ Coffin said,” the site continued. “‘They forbade the anti-vaccine movement, but he added: ‘We’re not anti-vaccine, we’re pro-informed consent.’”
Wherever one stands on the SARS-CoV-2 situation, however, it’s hard to argue rationally that techies should be deciding what medical-expert voices may be heard. And Truth Over Fear is certainly replete with experts. As the Register also tells us:
The conference features talks and live Q&As with accomplished doctors such as cardiologist Dr. Peter McCullough, vice chief of medicine at Baylor University. Reportedly the most widely published medical scholar in his field, McCullough has argued for early treatment of COVID cases.
Also speaking will be Drs. Pierre Kory and Tess Lawrie who have advocated using ivermectin to prevent and treat COVID, and German doctor Wolfgang Wodarg who has argued for herd immunity as the best way to combat the disease.
“Our speakers are in the main, board-certified positions — famous ones,” Coffin told the Register May 4. “These are not tin foil hat types; these are well well-regarded researchers, scientists, and physicians who are raising the same questions — but raising the question is the mortal sin.”
Catholic speakers include Bishop Athanasius Schneider of Astana, Kazakhstan, one of the most vocal opponents of the abortion-tainted COVID-19 vaccines, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, the former nuncio to Washington DC, who will give the opening keynote address, and Stephen Mosher, an expert on China and president of the Population Research Institute which opposes population control and abortion.
But credentials and fame offer no protection from Big Tech, and its censorship of China virus information has been the norm from the beginning. For example, almost a year ago, YouTube removed a video by Dr. Knut M. Wittkowski, former head of biostatistics, epidemiology, and research design at Rockefeller University. Wittkowski had argued that lockdowns were mostly unnecessary and that our typical COVID regulations were just prolonging the outbreak. His video had registered more than 1.3 million views before being scrubbed.
Later, in July 2020, YouTube and other Big Tech entities “disappeared” a video posted by Breitbart — one with 17 million views and which had been retweeted by President Trump — of 17 physicians who questioned the establishment China virus narrative.
Of course, the above are just two of the innumerable individuals and groups who’ve been censored by GoogTwitFace for deviation from the state COVID line.
Many will now say that these are “private” businesses and can do as they wish (interestingly, the same people tend to be conspicuously silent when the little guy — e.g., a Christian baker — is persecuted for refusing to service a same-sex “wedding”). But it’s not that simple.
First, GoogTwitFace enjoys government-granted protection from liability (Section 230) for content its users post. Yet this special treatment was predicated on the idea that Big Tech would provide open platforms free from censorship. These companies long ago violated this agreement.
Moreover, as a recent story about Big Tech colluding with California Democrats to censor Americans illustrates, government and GoogTwitFace are increasingly joined at the hip. What this means is that the state is doing an end run around the First Amendment, using tech companies as a proxies to do what it cannot lawfully do: stifle dissent.
In other words, Big Government censorship vs. Big Tech censorship is increasingly becoming a distinction without a difference. And, of course, if your voice is squelched and the Truth unheard, the issue of what entity directly effected the tyranny will from a practical standpoint matter not a whit.
