Thread 1441419

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https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/23/google-admits-censorship-pushed-biden-administration-invites-back/

> Those who saw their YouTube videos and other content banned during COVID-19 and the 2020 election were invited back to the platform Tuesday in an astonishing mea culpa from the company that blamed their censorship on Biden administration pressure tactics.

> Alphabet Inc., the company that operates Google and YouTube, wrote in a letter Tuesday to Congress that they were forced into removing content by Mr. Biden and his senior aides.

> “It is unacceptable and wrong when any government, including the Biden administration, attempts to dictate how the company moderates content,” Alphabet’s lawyers wrote to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan. “And the company has consistently fought against those efforts on First Amendment grounds.”

> Company officials acknowledged they had gone too far in banning content related to the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 presidential election results.

> Their censorship came mostly in response to senior Biden administration officials who repeatedly pressured them to take down content even though the material did not violate the company’s policies.

> Company officials said Biden administration aides and President Biden “created a political atmosphere that sought to influence the actions of platforms based on their concerns regarding misinformation.”

> Google also admitted to relying on “health authorities” when it initiated policies, kept in place through 2024, that banned certain discussions of COVID-19 policies and various treatments for the virus.

>>1441419 (OP)
> Those actions, Alphabet officials said in a letter to Mr. Jordan from their law firm, were “well-intentioned,” but they added, “The Company recognizes it should never come at the expense of public debate on these important issues.”

> Alphabet’s admission followed Mr. Jordan’s yearlong investigation into online censorship practices that appeared to target conservative viewpoints.

> The Ohio Republican issued a round of subpoenas seeking information from social media giants regarding their censorship of right-leaning voices.

> YouTube started banning users shortly after the contentious 2020 presidential election.

> In December of 2020, YouTube announced it had “terminated” more than 8,000 channels and thousands of “harmful and misleading” videos related to the 2020 election, including content that alleged “widespread fraud or errors” had skewed the election results.

> Company officials said in the same announcement that third-party “fact check information panels” were “triggered” more than 200,000 times on election-related content related to voting machine integrity and state recounts.

> Google was accused of demonetizing conservative media publisher The Federalist in 2020, along with the conservative website ZeroHedge, among others.

> “Google owes us all damages for what their censorship cost us,” Federalist CEO and co-founder Sean Davis said Tuesday. “A quick ‘we’re sorry’ now that they’re in trouble isn’t going to cut it. Their censorship cost us millions.”

> Content bans snared prominent users, among them Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican.

>>1441420
> In August 2021, YouTube suspended Mr. Paul for a week after he appeared in a video discussing two peer-reviewed studies that found cloth masks do not prevent the spread of viruses. The company had instituted a “three strikes” policy against users who repeatedly posted prohibited content. Mr. Paul, who pushed back against COVID-19 policies, was on his second strike, resulting in the weeklong ban.

> In June 2023, YouTube removed a video of popular podcast host Jordan Peterson interviewing Mr. Kennedy, who was then a presidential candidate. YouTube representatives said at the time that they removed the video “for violating YouTube’s general vaccine misinformation policy, which prohibits content that alleges that vaccines cause chronic side effects, outside of rare side effects that are recognized by health authorities.”

>>1441419 (OP)
>washingtontimes
MOONIES MOONIES MOONIES lmao

>waaaaah, Biden using presidential powers to quash lies about a global health crisis are pure dictatorship
>ABC is stupid for letting Kimmel back on the air. What, the FCC pressured them? No, Kimmel was unprofitable! Thats why they reinstated him almost immediately

We're in a MAGA cope thread

>>1441422
> Mr. Bongino was permanently banned from YouTube in January 2022 after posting two videos that cast doubt on mask-wearing to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

> Alphabet officials said in the letter to Mr. Jordan that they’ll offer those banned from YouTube due to COVID-19 or election-related content “an opportunity … to rejoin the platform.”

> The Biden administration has been under intense criticism over its tactics to pressure social media platforms to remove content. In addition to Alphabet, Biden aides bore down on Facebook and Twitter, now X, to force the companies to censor social media posts related to the election and the COVID-19 pandemic, according to emails uncovered by Mr. Jordan.

> The effort began almost as soon as Mr. Biden entered the White House with a Jan. 23, 2021, email from Clarke Humphrey, then the digital director for the administration’s COVID-19 response team.

> Mr. Humphrey emailed Twitter officials at 1 a.m. on Mr. Biden’s third day in office and asked them to remove a tweet posted a day earlier by Mr. Kennedy that suggested the death of Hank Aaron, 86, may have been tied to the coronavirus vaccine.

> Aides threatened the social media giants with unspecified “options” if the platforms did not comply with their censorship demands.

> In a now-dismissed lawsuit filed by two states against the Biden administration, U.S. District Judge Terry A. Doughty called their actions “arguably the most massive attack against free speech in United States history.”

Fin

>>1441419 (OP)
>Biden had to pressure google so that chuds would stop killing themselves and sabotage the whole effort to save billions from COVID
>Trump threatening media just to avoid accusations
It's the same thing according to MAGA faggots

The party that has lied about everything for the past thirty years lied during the last four years and continues to lie. I'm shocked

>bidens administration ordering YouTube to censor content because they don't like it
They did this so much though. This isn't even news at this point. This is just their standard mode of operation

>>1441460
Is Trump actually forcing media to remove such content or is he just talking shit about in the public domain?

Because it sounds like what Biden did was behind closed doors and he tried to hide it, and instead of talking s*** he actually just had secret meetings with them and forced them to stop

All covid misinformation was coming from Russia and China in an attempt to destabalize the west. Attacks on our country should be banned, I don't care if it's an american repeating the lies.

>>1441465
Source?

>>1441464
Disney removed Kimmel for the weekend. The FCC just said he should quit out of shame. No one actually pressured Disney to do it.

shills are really trying to retroactively gaslight America because they're triggered after failing to cancel Kimmel

>>1441467
>The FCC just said he should quit out of shame
How does, "We can do this the easy way or the hard way" fit into 'Kimmel should quit from shame'?
Why did ABC reinstate Kimmel after it was clarified that it wasn't a threat?
Can you cope any harder?

>>1441467
This

>>1441464
>Epstein Scandal

>>1441464
Gluk gluk gluk slurp, president Trump you're so awesome gluk glukglukglukgluk gllrmmpf, thank you mister president now my belly is full.

>>1441473
Wow you really are totally mindbroken aren't you

>>1441475
Not that you've drained his dick Go around to the other side and slurp there

>>1441419 (OP)
democrats are psychotic monsters, news at 11

>>1441493
Interesting comment from a faggot who backed probably the most ridiculously horrible president in modern history. The sloppy toppy was off the fucking charts.
Hell you probably had 4 whole years of not eating solid foods since every single day you had a belly full of Biden cock snot.
...Probably why you mf'ers didn't give one shit about Bindenflation driving up food prices until your tried to campaign on egg prices by killing all the fucking chickens in the country due to fake-ass bird flu outbreaks.
Become an fucking hero already, faggot.

>>1441475
It's just rhetoric, bro. Rhetoric, good ol temporary rhetoric.

>>1441498
Gonna be hard to top the orange clown. Literally, it's like climbing a fucking melting mountain.
- Stormy

Jabba the Trump, kingpin of the Tit2win mafia.

>>1441498
Accurate. Biden shills are infamous for their sloppy toppy game.

I don't have much going on rn, so back to this...
Gluk gluk gluk, oh Trump, gluk gluk gluk, I love you, gluk gluk gluk, I defend you online, gluk gluk gluk, I am your biggest fan, gluk gluk gluk, yeah you can finish inside me, gluk gluk gluk, yes I will put on the chains for you, gluk gluk gluk

>>1441517
Trump's gag order: costs $299

>>1441419 (OP)
>washingtontimes.com
This is a newspaper founded by a Korean religious cult, so this probably didn't happen.

Twitter files was a nothingburger too.
So... you're telling me Trump threatened Google to say that?

>>1441542
I wouldn't call fueling the republican grievance culture and enabling the woke right to make thousands more fake news videos for years afterward nothing, Anon.

When dear leader is tried and sentenced, all his cronies will say he made them do it.

>>1441545
Add a bunch of zeros together and you still have zero.

>>1441545
Faggiest forced meme'iest post I've ever seen in all my years. This rivals Milhouse in it's forced meme'iness.

>>1441555
Can I offer you an Epstein file in these trying times?

>>1441555
u mad?

The little snowflakes melted anyway.

>>1441556
Sure, release the Epstein files. I want to see them.
>>1441557
No really. You are though, might wanna check your fedora for formaldehyde.
>>1441562
Indeed.

>>1441565
Sorry trump sacked every single person who was trying to reveal epstein files to the public HAHA

>>1441566
Why didn't Biden release them?

>>1441570
>WHATABOUT

Its like shills collectively memoryholed Trump going full steam on releasing the files all campaign and the first three months (Epstein files on desks)

>>1441419 (OP)
>HURR DE DURR TRUMP BANNING MUH SHITTY LATE-NITE COMEDIANS I'M OUTRAGED
>Pay no attention to all the censorship democrats have engaged in with fucking everyone
And of course this thread is full of cope from the left, desperately justifying their actions of silencing their political opponents.

>>1441601
no, we just don't pay attention to things that don't exist

>>1441581
WHATABOUT is fair play. Especially in this case.
Considering Demodumps are attempting to make the Faggy, gay and retarded claim dRumpf was fucking kids with Epstein and in the last election cycle the files weren't released but Bidet's DOJ which would have cemented his or Cumswalla Whoreis's election, why did he not release them?

>>1441602
>WE DINDU NUFFIN
>looks at OP
>they in fact did something

>>1441419 (OP)
Is the covid scam finally starting to be walked back now?

>>1441570
>>1441604
You already know they were sealed under court order the entire time Biden was president thanks to the SCOTUS.

>>1441611
No, this is a fake story from a religious cult.

>>1441612
>You already know they were sealed under court order the entire time Biden was president thanks to the SCOTUS.
Still are.

I still love the fact that magats are killing themselves, literally, just to win. It makes me smile every single day.

>>1441604
Let this be archived for when the files are released and pedo Trump backtracks it, while maga copes with loving a pedophile. Lol.

Hur dur dur.
Twitter banned me for my racist vocabulary. It us a conspiracy.

No sir, you got suspended/banned for clear violations of the ToS that you agreed to but didn't/couldn't read. Only your fag friends want to stand in a circle jerking it hating on Mexicans or blacks all day, the site tries to appeal to people with money for the advertisers, not a bunch of broke degenerates.

>>1441673
Google admitted that it was, infact, a conspiracy. And they reinstated those banned accounts.

>>1441613
Trump doesn't care about court orders. Biden did.

>>1441717
No one believes your persecution fantasies but you.

>>1441722
See >>1441419 (OP)
>Alphabet Inc., the company that operates Google and YouTube, wrote in a letter Tuesday to Congress that they were forced into removing content by Mr. Biden and his senior aides.
Lmao get fucked commie rat

>>1441726
see >>1432451
Google already bent the knee to Trump months ago.

>>1441735
>silicon valley didn't bend the knee
>U-UH BUT THEY DID TO TRUMP!
Hahahaha
AHAHAHAHAHAH

>>1441739
This but unironically.

>>1441726
Coerced to say it by dwarf leader. Came after the crackdown on free speech, not before... means it was done under duress. Still hungry from the twitterfiles nothingburger? Side order of Trump lies? And a large cope to wash it all down?

>>1441866
>we
LOL