The policy represents a betrayal of the pioneering platform's founding principles.

oon, YouTubers will be silenced if they don't agree with the United Nations on public health. As The Verdict reports:

YouTube will ban any content containing medical advice that contradicts World Health Organisation (WHO) coronavirus recommendations, according to CEO Susan Wojcicki.

Wojcicki announced the policy on CNN on Sunday. WHO is an agency of the UN, charged with overseeing global public health. The Verdict report continues:

Wojcicki said that the Google-owned video streaming platform would be "removing information that is problematic".

She told host Brian Stelter that this would include "anything that is medically unsubstantiated".

"So people saying 'take vitamin C; take turmeric, we'll cure you', those are the examples of things that would be a violation of our policy," she said.

"Anything that would go against World Health Organisation recommendations would be a violation of our policy."

While the decision has been welcomed by many, some have accused the streaming giant of censorship.

To be clear, for American YouTubers, this kind of censorship is not a violation of their constitutional right of free speech. The First Amendment protects citizens against government censorship, and YouTube is a private platform. Were the US government to force the private owners of YouTube to continue broadcasting certain videos against their will, that would be much more a violation of the First Amendment.

While YouTube's decision is not unconstitutional, it is unwise, exhibiting far too much deference to central authority in general and to WHO especially.