Dr. Drew Pinsky announced Friday that YouTube has locked his channel for a week, so he livestreamed on Rumble instead.
YouTube also deleted the video that caused the strike on his channel, which was the channel’s second-most popular video, according to Pinsky.
“Thankfully [Rumble] supports free speech,” Pinsky tweeted.
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Despite my vocal support of vaccines and science, YouTube deleted my #2 most-viewed show, put a strike on my channel & locked it for a week… again. Thankfully @RumbleVideo supports free speech. Watch @AskDrDrew LIVE at 4pm PT. https://t.co/6yjJixXmUD
— Dr. Drew (@drdrew) April 29, 2022
The video in question featured the celebrity doctor discussing the effects of the COVID-19 vaccine. Pinsky has been pro-vaccine from the start and admitted that most who experienced effects still did not regret getting the vaccine.
On the Rumble livestream, Pinsky’s wife, Susan, talked about their own 20-something children who chose to receive a booster shot and experienced negative side effects. The two agreed that if their children were under 18, they wouldn’t have bothered getting them vaccinated against COVID-19.
“Should ‘Big Tech’ have the power to censor debates between doctors … and how can social platform moderators correctly identify ‘medical misinformation’ unless they are doctors themselves?” the video’s caption reads.
“We’ll be back on YouTube eventually,” Pinsky said.
Pinsky boasted an audience of over 58,000 subscribers on YouTube and over 3.8 million views on his videos. Meanwhile, he has over 113,000 subscribers on Rumble as of this report.
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Rumble recently defended its decision to allow Russia-owned news network RT on its platform when YouTube banned it. RT currently has 49,000 subscribers, an increase of 4,000 since the Washington Examiner reported the story. The channel hasn’t posted since March 3.
