Frontline COVID-19 Critical Care doctors switch to Odysee after Vimeo censorship

Those who might consider Vimeo a viable YouTube alternative, particularly where it concerns free speech, might also feel the need to rethink this in light of an announcement made on August 10 by Frontline COVID-19 Critical Care (FLCCC), a group of leading critical care doctors who formed an alliance. In a post, they informed their followers that videos missing from the FLCCC website (embedded from Vimeo) have been disappearing – as a consequence of the video site deplatforming the organization, i.e., deleting their account and therefore all content. But the tweet continued, “We are working quickly to replace all of the links on @OdyseeTeam” – referring to Odysee, a video site built on top of the Lbry blockchain protocol. Odysee Team was all too happy to respond on Twitter, promising to support FLCCC and its audience as the alliance’s content is transitioned to the platform. Vimeo, who sits on the opposite end of the platform “philosophy” as a centralized one, informed FLCCC that the account was removed in a notice shared in a screenshot, which cited a violation of the site’s guidelines. Vimeo accused FLCCC of uploading videos that spread misinformation or untruths about vaccination safety or other health-related information…
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