The administration pressured them in regards to Covid-19 and election interference content, but the Counsel makes it extremely clear that Youtube did not comply.
Then why did thousands of accounts get banned for political speech? I've been seeing people screaming about the FCC 'pressuring' ABC to fire Jimmy Kimmel.
Yet, this, which was actually known a few years ago, is all but silenced in the mainstream news and on Facebook.
I would ask why, but we all know why.
The red team hasn't spun up their own version of this Orwellian nightmare -- probably because they lean on something bigger than bureaucracy, like a belief in free thought or a higher power. Nietzsche said you can't be an elite without faith in something beyond the state.
This isn't engineered; it's emergent. The blue team should be sweating -- their push for control lookied like a fringe fever dream. If you're peddling censorship disguised as safety, the only thing you deserve is a one-way ticket to obscurity, or a jail cell.
> If you're peddling censorship disguised as safety, the only thing you deserve is a one-way ticket to obscurity, or a jail cell.
Jailing people you don't agree with is certainly a take that puts you in excellent company.
Disseminating accurate information and handling misinformation is literally one of the mandates of the DHS. Nobody batted an eye when the government did the exact same thing for the Spanish Flu, or the Boll Weevil blight, or smallpox. It was never perfect, but it was not inherently political in nature until one side laid down on the tracks and voluntarily became a victim.
We can debate all day as to whether the previous administration went too far in regards to Covid, but clearly all of the conspiracy theorists have kept their jobs and stayed on the air so it can't have been that effective. And it's also clearly a different beast to what is happening now, where it's not even done under the auspices of pragmatism but as a way to punish political adversaries only for existing.
This Jim Jordan? Republican Jim Jordan deposed in federal suit tied to sex abuse by late Ohio State team doctor
https://apnews.com/article/ohio-state-team-doctor-congress-j...
Is every republican in power attempting o throw press releases about others in the air to distract from their own negative press?
Google could and did do what it wanted. The Biden admin didn’t threaten to revoke licenses or stop mergers over this stuff.
Which was defined as merely questioning official sources, pretending such sources provided nothing but the absolute truth.
