Google admits to censorship

[knownunknown]

After a years long investigation google finally revealed what we already knew, Biden’s admin put pressure on YouTube to ban accounts relating to Covid, election interference and the hunter Biden story.

• The Biden Administration pressured Google to censor Americans and remove content that did not violate YouTube's policies.
• The Biden Administration censorship pressure was "unacceptable and wrong."
• Public debate should never come at the expense of relying "authorities."
• The company will never use third-party "fact-checkers."
• Europe's censorship laws target American companies and threaten American speech, including the removal of "lawful content

https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press ... e-accounts

[ceannairceach]

After a years long investigation google finally revealed what we already knew, Biden’s admin put pressure on YouTube to ban accounts relating to Covid, election interference and the hunter Biden story.

• The Biden Administration pressured Google to censor Americans and remove content that did not violate YouTube's policies.
• The Biden Administration censorship pressure was "unacceptable and wrong."
• Public debate should never come at the expense of relying "authorities."
• The company will never use third-party "fact-checkers."
• Europe's censorship laws target American companies and threaten American speech, including the removal of "lawful content

https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press ... e-accounts

Well I’m shocked. Not.

[Adso_of_Melk]

Yet they've taken Jimmy Kimmel as their free speech hero ... what a joke..

[notobtuse]

But no talk from Google of compensating those they maliciously censored and cancelled.

[knownunknown]

But no talk from Google of compensating those they maliciously censored and cancelled.

I wonder would those creators have standing though to take a case now that google has admitted wrong.

Apparently they are going to bring in a community notes type of fact checking led by the community ala twitter/x. I think this is a good compromise so that there aren’t outside politicized fact checkers telling us what the truth is.

[notobtuse]

I wonder would those creators have standing though to take a case now that google has admitted wrong.

Apparently they are going to bring in a community notes type of fact checking led by the community ala twitter/x. I think this is a good compromise so that there aren’t outside politicized fact checkers telling us what the truth is.

Google has vowed to reinstate YouTube accounts that were banned under pressure from the Biden administration for COVID-19, election-related content, and other reasons. I’m sure some people had been negatively impacted from having their accounts banned, or removed from Google's searches. But it would probably be a nightmare to quantify.