YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke
Throwaway. I worked at an event David did many years ago. I used to be a big fan.<p>My wife and I watched his 3 hour interview last night after hearing about these bans and discussed this a fair bit.<p>For those that didn&#x27;t watch, he categorically denies the existence of Covid-19, calls the entire thing a hoax and said that Gates is a psychopath who wants to vaccinate the entire world with nanobots that will eventually enslave us. 5G doesn&#x27;t cause Covid-19, because it doesn&#x27;t exist, but 5g can activate the nanobots and at 60ghz can cause respiratory problems similar to what we&#x27;re seeing. This is orchestrated by a shadowy group called The Cult. We should rise up against our governments and the &#x27;technocrats&#x27; of silicon valley (the 1%) to solve this.<p>It may sound ridiculous, but he mixes in enough truth (often in the form of things you will have seen on the Internet) and cleverly spun arguments to make the &#x27;lies&#x27; believable. He does this over a long enough time period (yesterday 3 hours, but his talks are often far longer), that you come away believing what he&#x27;s said, that&#x27;s he incredibly clever, and that he&#x27;s fighting for the &quot;real man on the street&quot; against the 1% and a government that&#x27;s done nothing for you. Social media has been very dangerous in this respect.<p>A few days ago I saw someone on twitter saying that rather than deplatform, Icke should just be beaten in debate. The problem is you can&#x27;t beat Icke in debate without making his followers dig in further. Like any conspiracist, the retort is &quot;that&#x27;s what they&#x27;d want you to say&quot;. It&#x27;s similar to arguing with someone about the existence of God. You can&#x27;t <i>prove</i> there is no God, I continue to believe and tell you he exists.<p>My wife just thinks it&#x27;s all ridiculous. I think with the vaccinations, it&#x27;s dangerous. But then I have kids now, both are vaccinated. The concept of censoring people scares me, but the idea of throwing away a hundred years of science and medicine because people are worried about being being controlled by Gates&#x27;s nanobots scares me even more.