On Friday, video sharing platform YouTube banned Senator Ron Johnson for seven days for violating its “COVID-19 medical misinformation policies” and also removed one of his videos.

Fox News reports:

The video removal and upload ban came after two videos of Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearings he led on early experimental treatments to the novel coronavirus, such as hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin.

“Big Tech and mainstream media believe they are smarter than medical doctors who have devoted their lives to science and use their skills to save lives,” Johnson said. “They have decided there is only one medical viewpoint allowed, and it is the viewpoint dictated by government agencies. How many lives will be lost as a result? How many lives could have been saved with a free exchange of medical ideas?”

The video in question is of a speech Johnson gave where he torched the Biden and Trump administrations for “not only ignoring but working against robust research [on] the use of cheap, generic drugs to be repurposed for early treatment of COVID” and noted he held two hearings on the matter.

Additionally, Johnson touched on testimony from one of the hearings he led that spoke about “the four pillars of pandemic response,” such as preventing the virus from spreading, vaccines, hospital treatments and early treatments.