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Democratic presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. recently slammed Youtube’s censorship of his interview with Jordan Peterson where they discussed the impacts of vaccines and the level of chemicals in the water supply.

“What do you think ... Should social media platforms censor presidential candidates?” Kennedy asked in a June 18 Twitter post. The question came as a result of his June 5 interview with Jordan Peterson, which was removed from YouTube because of its community guidelines.

“Now YouTube has taken upon itself to actively interfere with a presidential election campaign,” Peterson tweeted in response to Kennedy’s statement. The 90-minute video is still available on Twitter, as Peterson originally shared it in early June from his page.

Fox News reported that a Google spokesperson said the video was removed from YouTube because it violated the platform's general vaccine policy, which bans content promoting the idea that vaccines cause chronic side effects, are not effective in reducing transmission, or cause other health issues like autism or infertility. The spokesperson also said the "Community Guidelines apply equally to all creators on our platform, regardless of political viewpoint."

In his video, Kennedy focused on the authority that Big Pharma had over governments and politicians. He referenced the major four pharmaceutical companies that have paid over $35 billion over the last decade in criminal penalties “for lying to doctors, for defrauding regulators, for falsifying science, and for killing hundreds of thousands of people.” Kennedy likened the industry to a criminal enterprise. 

He also spoke on chemicals in the water, referencing the atrazine in the water supply, a chemical which he said has been shown to chemically castrate male frogs when added to their water tanks. “I think a lot of the problems we see in kids, particularly boys, it’s probably underappreciated on how much of that is coming from chemical exposures, including a lot of the sexual dysphoria that we’re seeing," Kennedy said.