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\u201cAnything that goes against [World Health Organization] recommendations would be a violation of our policy and so removal is another really important part of our policy,\u201d CEO Susan Wojcicki\u00a0told CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n Wittkowski\u2019s argument is a minority opinion among his colleagues, but still well within mainstream thought and currently is the basis for Sweden\u2019s non-lockdown approach to the pandemic.<\/p>\n The embattled WHO, however, is not a fan, with the group\u2019s executive director of health emergencies, Mike Ryan, this week calling it \u201ca really dangerous, dangerous calculation.\u201d<\/p>\n Rockefeller University \u2014 Wittkowski\u2019s employer for 20 years \u2014 also released a statement\u00a0sharply distancing itself<\/a>\u00a0from him last month.<\/p>\n While the doctor might have been too hot for YouTube, he has found a home at the\u00a0American Institute for Economic Research<\/a>, which is currently hosting the video online.<\/p>\n Across social media, censors have been racing to limit the flow of verboten information.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have broadened our definition of harm to address content that goes directly against guidance from authoritative sources of global and local public health information,\u201d Twitter said in April shortly after removing two tweets by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.<\/p>\n That same month, Facebook conceded it had been\u00a0working with state governments<\/a>\u00a0in California, New Jersey and Nebraska to remove pages for anti-quarantine events.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s the kind of totalitarian thinking and conduct that has cost millions of lives in recent world history. The fact that it\u2019s being done by private companies and not government doesn\u2019t change that,\u201d Ron Coleman, a prominent First Amendment lawyer, told The Post.<\/p>\n