Alec Hogg: Our first scrape with censorship over keynote
The BizNews team expected nothing more taxing over the Easter Weekend than watching views keep piling up on a gone-viral video of Nick Hudson's keynote from our inaugural conference. YouTube had other plans.
On Thursday evening, the world's dominant video hosting platform removed those 27 minutes by then seen over 500 000 times. The video's popularity far surpassed our previous "biggie" (100 000). Its message from actuary Hudson, co-founder of PANDA, clearly resonated with many.
So why was the video removed? We've been told: "YouTube doesn't allow content that explicitly disputes the efficacy of local health authorities or World Health Organisation guidance on social distancing and self isolation." In other words, allow commentators to challenge official narratives at your peril.
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