Interview · moment 13 of 22
Censorship for 'Discouraging' Vaccine Uptake
from #246 - I Love The CIA (with Whitney Webb) | The Tim Dillon Show · #246
5 min
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Whitney details Patreon's admission that her article wasn't factually wrong but may have discouraged 'preventative countermeasures,' and she and Tim discuss the broader pattern of media and tech gatekeeping.
- Patreon never specified what was factually inaccurate in the removal notice, just suspended him without examples.
- He created a backup funding system through Patreon last year after seeing the writing on the wall, which saved him from complete shutdown.
- His alternatives are RockFin for his podcast and Unlimited Hangout's website, where he set up a Patreon-equivalent subscription system.
- Tim argues that Patreon censoring people for off-platform activities—articles on websites—is strange and insidious.
- Financial censorship through platform removal attacks content creators' ability to work professionally.
- Patreon's actual argument: the articles discourage people from getting vaccinated, even if they're not factually wrong.
- In follow-up emails, Patreon admitted they didn't find misinformation but objected to how the audience might react to the information.
- Tim points out that the same institutions pushing censorship promoted the Iraq War and secret torture prisons.
- Tech companies have replaced broadcast networks as the entities controlling what information people access.
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