{"id":621921,"date":"2024-05-31T11:21:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T15:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=621921"},"modified":"2024-05-31T11:21:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T15:21:12","slug":"quebec-court-rules-against-youtube-in-covid-censorship-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=621921","title":{"rendered":"Quebec court rules against YouTube in COVID censorship case"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>The Quebec Superior Court has approved a class action lawsuit against streaming platform YouTube for censoring free speech during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/h4>\n<p>Primary plaintiff \u00c9lo\u00efse Boies, host of \u00c9lo Wants to Know podcast, had three of her videos removed by the platform due to allegedly violating YouTube\u2019s medical \u201cmisinformation\u201d policies.\u00a0According to Reclaim the Net, Boise in February said YouTube not only removed her content, but also branded her an \u201cantivaxxer\u201d and a \u201cconspiracy theorist.\u201d The smearing caused her to lose contracts, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Quebec Superior Court Judge Lukasz Granosik in announcing his ruling declared <em><strong>freedom of expression \u201cdoes not only mean freedom of speech, but also freedom of publication and freedom of creation.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The suit covers any party in Quebec censured by the platform as well as anyone who was prevented from accessing related videos from mid-March until present.\u00a0P<em><strong>eople can still sign on for the suit.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernstandard.news\/news\/quebec-court-rules-against-youtube-in-covid-censorship-case\/54926\">https:\/\/www.westernstandard.news\/news\/quebec-court-rules-against-youtube-in-covid-censorship-case\/54926<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Quebec Superior Court has approved a class action lawsuit against streaming platform YouTube for censoring free speech during the COVID-19 pandemic. Primary plaintiff \u00c9lo\u00efse Boies, host of \u00c9lo Wants to Know podcast, had three of her videos removed by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=621921\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-621921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=621921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621922,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621921\/revisions\/621922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=621921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=621921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=621921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}