Google bans ads on content, including YouTube videos, with false claims about climate change.
Google said it will no longer display advertisements on YouTube videos and other content that promote inaccurate claims about climate change.
…we might still think the sun goes around the earth.
Look, I happen to believe the scientists are right about climate change, but the scientists…or philosophers, I guess they were…in the time of Copernicus believed with equal fervor the sun traveled around the earth, and it wasn't just them—anybody with functioning eyes could see clearly the sun traveled from one edge of the earth to the opposite edge, right on schedule, every single day. What could be more obvious?
This was not "disinformation," this was just plain observable truth. Until it wasn't.
Which is not to say disinformation does not exist today, or the climate scientists are wrong.
But stifling dissenting ideas needs to be done with deliberate caution, if at all.
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