BREAKING: YouTube bans (suspends) LifeSite over video of Bp. Strickland refusing to take corona vaccine

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Do you support COMPELLING businesses to fund contraception through any means?
It’s an interesting question is all I can say. I live in a country where contraception can be funded by national government, local government, charities, or private health insurance, or you can just pay for your own as and when you need it. E.g., the pill and more complicated arrangements like the coil are provided free at the point of delivery by the NHS; condoms used to be provided universally by the NHS, generally through services funded at local level, but are now mostly available only to young people; condoms are also provided by charities; you can buy oral contraception on the internet for about £6 per month (with a prescription). Therefore, I have not spent a lot of time thinking about this.

However, you are missing my original point. My point was that people get up in arms because companies exercise their right to choose what kind of materials they are prepared to publish on their platforms, but that people, often the very same people, also get up in arms when the government tries to interfere in the affairs of companies that wish to exercise a right not to fund certain kinds of healthcare. You cannot have it both ways: if you think YouTube etc are in the wrong because they suspend an organisation from using their service, surely you must also think that other companies are in the wrong when they similarly take a stand for their own beliefs, such as being against contraception.
 
Every catholic that is serious about their faith disagrees with mine.
These sins against nature are not just violations of faith.

They contradict the natural law. They are sins against our very nature. (They are self-destructive.)
 
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My point was that people get up in arms because companies exercise their right to choose what kind of materials they are prepared to publish on their platforms . . .
Do you know WHY this is the case?

I am disappointed by these things from Youtube etc.

If you think I am disappointed merely because I disagree with the position these leftists are pushing on society you’re wrong.

Do you understand WHY people like me are disappointed here?
 
These sins against nature are not just violations of faith.

They contradict the natural law. They are sins against our very nature.
…according to your Catholic beliefs. Millions of non Catholics disagree. This is the problem when you (plural) define and declare a religious position upon others. It’s fine for you to believe it but it is a theological position and we live in a secular country. This is certainly not my belief and while Catholics agree with you, the non Catholics agree with me. So, now what? Follow your beliefs for you and allow me to follow mine. I will never force someone to take BC pills. Please don’t refuse me the right to take them for my health when it’s perfectly fine for ME to do so.
 
This is the problem when you (plural) define and declare a religious position upon others.
You’re not getting it if you think I am merely defining a “religious position” here.

But go ahead and think whatever you want.

Someday you will understand. But not via a pep-talk from me.
 
And I, too, hope that one day you can distinguish between a religious position (natural law) and a secular one. Claiming natural law is not religious is a position of the religious. 🤷‍♀️
 

BREAKING: YouTube reverses ban on LifeSiteNews​

YouTube had falsely claimed that one episode of The Bishop Strickland Show was 'medical misinformation.'

Thu Dec 10, 2020 - 10:46 am EST

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December 10, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — YouTube has lifted its suspension of LifeSiteNews’ channel on the video platform, days after sanctioning this publication for a video in which Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, explained why he could not in good conscience take any COVID-19 vaccine derived from or developed with the cells of aborted babies.

On Monday, YouTube placed a two-week suspension on LifeSite’s channel, claiming that the episode of The Bishop Strickland Show was “medical misinformation.” (Readers can learn the truth about which COVID-19 vaccines in development do or do not use fetal cells by clicking here).

LifeSite quickly filed an appeal, noting that while YouTube’s Terms and Conditions surrounding “COVID-19 Medical Misinformation” state that “videos claiming that the COVID-19 vaccine will contain fetal tissue” are not allowed on YouTube, Bp. Strickland actually states in the video, “I am not going to accept a vaccine that has the DNA of aborted children in it. That is the good thing about the Pfizer vaccine, it does not contain the DNA of aborted children.”

“According to basic principles of contract law, we are relying on YouTube to abide by their own TOS so we know what we can and cannot post,” LifeSite wrote. “As evidenced by the quotes above, this video should not be removed under the TOS. If there is another term besides the one cited by us above, could you specify which term was violated?”

On Thursday morning, YouTube lifted LifeSite’s suspension . . .

. . . Although LifeSiteNews is grateful that our 200,000 YouTube subscribers can watch new videos again, we know that censorship from YouTube is not over, and we must still do all we can to build our reach on alternative platforms such as LifeSiteNews’ Rumble channel. . . .

 
“According to basic principles of contract law, we are relying on YouTube to abide by their own TOS so we know what we can and cannot post,”
As the court noted in PragerU v YouTube, the ToS also allows a video or account to be removed for any reason, including no reason. With that line in place, a removal is not a ToS violation.
Although LifeSiteNews is grateful that our 200,000 YouTube subscribers can watch new videos again, we know that censorship from YouTube is not over,
Ofcourse it is not. Moderation is an ongoing activity.
 
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