I wanted to add another comment to this with some other thoughts for historical context.
When Trump won in 2016 there wasn't almost any internet censorship going on in the USA. In fact, in many places the Trump communities grew exponentially and were getting more engagement and were larger than left leaning communitities. Most of the people who work in Silicon valley are left leaning and they don't like the rise of all the right wing/libertarian/anarchist stuff.
Soooo, the censorship starts somewhere around 2017 from what I can remember, it was on Youtube first mainly and what Youtube did was take about 90% of the views on "channels they don't like" and give them to channels they do like. Years later this turned into CNN/ABC/FOX News and others getting all the views. Corporations are now getting the views/search results/trending because Youtube changed the algorithm to do that.
The censorship of individuals is at the highest it's ever been. This is the reason why everyone is a lot more upset about the downvoting happening on Hive in 2021 than they were on Steem 2017 201i 2019 2020 etc
There arent many free speech platforms out there. The censorship is rising exponentially. None of us cam afford to sit back and hope it doesnt come for us anymore, it is already affecting us
Our YouTube got a strike for medical misinformation despite it being the truth. Fauci presided over the aids epidemic when that happened decades ago in the USA. At the time there were life saving drugs and treatments that were very low cost that he didnt allow to be approved, instead only allowing super expensive treatments. We have him doing it AGAIN with covid 19 denying ivermectin works for it. There is actually. Huge blockbuster movie that covered this whole thing about the aids epidemic Fauci was in charge of, movie is The Dallas Buyers club. Where a few guys help out people with aids by getting them to exercise, ear healthy, take vitamins. Aids makes attacks and lowers your immune system, doing all these things improves your immune system, Fauci at the time went after these guys and tried to get em charged with crimes.
When we have people with huge stakes down voting and they dont know history like this, THEY are the conspiracy theorists and are factually incorrect.
It is our duty to tell the truth no matter the cost and we cannot afford to have huge downvotes censoring that any longer, the stakes are too high. Please just stop downvoting content you dont understand or dont like, leaving it alone is the way to go.
Actually, Youtube has been censoring content since (iirc) at least before 2010 - there were many researchers who I followed who just got deleted by Youtube at that time (and ever since). It is more common for accounts to be sandboxed and reach restricted, so they are definitely censored without them even realising most of the time. This is the norm for Youtube and occurs on a large scale. I proved this by viewing my videos and comments via Tor - the anonymous browser. Many of my comments are invisible to the wider world, but visible to me. This has been the case for probably over a decade.
The pattern you described with Fauci is the EXACT same pattern that occurred with Morris Fishbein, ex head of the AMA: https://rense.com/general19/enemy.htm
He was putting up posters of people who were treating cancer using non toxic methods, saying they are public enemies and ruining their careers (hurting patients in the process). Meanwhile, behind the scenes, he was trying to acquire the patents on their recipes in order to steal their thunder. In general, these people are obsessed by personal power, so they crush anyone who has it in an attempt to take it and use it for themselves.