Tucker Carlson calls Brian Stelter a 'eunuch,' says the mainstream media can’t stand up to Big Tech censorship

Tucker Carlson weighed in on YouTube’s censorship of Rand Paul in his show on Friday night, citing it as the latest example of the mainstream media’s inability to stand up to the censorship of Big Tech companies like YouTube.

YouTube – the de facto video sharing platform of the internet – has taken it upon itself decide what’s true and what isn’t by prohibiting certain opinions that defy the narrative. In the latest big instance of social media censorship, the Google-owned platform suspended Sen. Rand Paul for a week after he claimed that “cloth masks don’t work,” as The Post Millennial reported.

"A badge of honor ... leftwing cretins at Youtube banning me for 7 days for a video that quotes 2 peer reviewed articles saying cloth masks don't work," Paul tweeted Tuesday.

Speaking on his show on Friday night, Carlson said that the mainstream media refuses to acknowledge the power wielded by the CEOs of social media companies like YouTube’s Susan Wojcicki, whom he cites as an example of someone who is “now in charge of your life” despite having “no relevant qualifications to justify the power they now hold.”

“What's infuriating is that they won't admit this. They pretend that the control they wield is part of the natural order of things somehow, that they deserve it, that they’re God. Most of them forget that not so long ago they worked in the marketing department. Susan Wojcicki announced that she plans to censor any information about COVID that she doesn't like, even if that information has been posted by physicians who are treating COVID,” said Carlson.

Referring to an interview Wojcicki did with CNN’s Brian Stelter, whom Carlson referred to as a “eunuch,” Carlson pointed out how the CNN host seemed impotent in his inability to confront Wojcicki.

“In no sane country would Susan Wojcicki be in charge of determining what constitutes problematic medical disinformation,” said Carlson. “And certainly, in no sane country would she be allowed to silence physicians who are treating the virus.”

“But because of the way our system is structured, Wojcicki is certainly allowed to do that, and so she is. This week Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, who, by the way, is an actual doctor, not just some guy who rented his garage to Larry Page in the 90s, tried to make an obvious point. And it's this: The masks that you buy at the airport in order to comply with federal law will not keep you from getting COVID,” continued Carlson.

“Rand Paul was not just guessing about this, the science is very clear, no honest person will deny that,” Carlson added. “But Susan Wojcicki doesn't think you should know that because that'll make you harder to control. So she pulled Rand Paul's video from YouTube.”

Carlson showed a portion of Rand Paul’s speech – the portion of which led to his suspension – and highlighted how his remarks were echoed by Dr. Anthony Fauci just last year.

“But it was censored anyway. And the fact that YouTube did censor it anyway is a scandal. It's one of many such scandals playing out in our country right now,” said Carlson.

“Now, you'd think the media might be on this story,” the Fox News host continued. “You'd imagine that people who make their living on the First Amendment would defend it and lead the charge against censorship. But no, just the opposite in this bewildering time. Those people encourage censorship. They're out there in public begging the tech companies to suppress news and information to make certain the public never sees it. Doing that makes them feel powerful and protects their monopoly. So now, they're attacking Rand Paul.”

“We've gone on and on and on, you're not shocked you see this sort of thing so often, you can't be shocked by it anymore. But some perspective: Three years ago, this was a free country. Now it feels like everything that we hear has been written by a committee at the propaganda ministry downtown,” he said.