Senator Rand Paul blasts 'left-wing cretins' at YouTube who blocked him for a WEEK for video saying most over-the-counter masks don't stop COVID spread

YouTube suspended Republican Senator Rand Paul for seven days on Tuesday night for posting a video disputing whether masks stop the spread of COVID.

'Most of the masks you get over the counter don’t work. They don’t prevent infection,' Paul of Kentucky said in the video which has been taken down.

'Trying to shape human behavior isn't the same as following the actual science, which tells us that cloth masks don’t work,' he added.

A YouTube spokesperson said Paul's claims in the three-minute clip violated their policy on COVID medical misinformation.

The company, owned by Google, states that videos will be taken if they claim that 'masks do not play a role in preventing the contraction of transmission of COVID-19'.

Paul responded with outrage on Twitter after YouTube announced the ban and called it a 'badge of honor'.

He also included a link to watch the video on a different platform, Liberty Tree. 

'Leftwing cretins at Youtube banning me for 7 days for a video that quotes 2 peer reviewed articles saying cloth masks don’t work,’ he lamented.

This was Paul's first of three strikes, according to YouTube. The punishments start with a one week ban and get worse for each infraction.

YouTube removed last week an eight-minute Newsmax interview on Paul’s channel where he said “there’s no value” in wearing masks. For this, he received a warning and the subsequent violation this week was part of the ‘first strike’ response to a second offense.

Paul, who was a practicing ophthalmology before becoming a U.S. senator, has engaged in multiple public skirmishes with Dr. Anthony Fauci over the origins of coronavirus and whether the U.S. helped fund the Wuhan lab where it leaked from.

The Kentucky Republican was removed from YouTube hours after Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene was issued a week-long suspension from Twitter for saying vaccines were 'failing' because Americans were still getting infected.

A Twitter spokesperson told DailyMail.com that Greene's account 'will be in read-only mode for a week due to repeated violations of the Twitter Rules.'