https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45352258 ("Google Admits Censorship Pressure from Biden Admin, Pledges to Reinstate Accts")
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45352213 ("YouTube Will Let Users Booted for Violations of COVID, Elections Policies Rejoin")
db48x•4mo ago
Fun times. How do we prevent it from happening again?
HankStallone•4mo ago
db48x•4mo ago
HankStallone•4mo ago
But is anyone going to believe the Biden administration had to strong-arm them into censoring dissenting opinions about Covid? They did it because they were goodthinkers, and all goodthinkers at the time agreed that those opinions were dangerous and should be blocked from the public ear. No one had to make them do it.
I get the feeling a lot of people/companies are going to use Biden as a scapegoat for things they all agreed needed doing.
db48x•4mo ago
miltonlost•4mo ago
But they're not true! Why are you celebrating allowing people do misinform and lie?
This is so clearly an attempt by Google to kiss the ring of the Trump administration when Trump et all are the ones who have been clearly censoring and attempting censoring.
db48x•4mo ago
erentz•4mo ago
No they aren’t. Your own quotes say they terminated for their own policies. Not because of pressure by the government. They say if anything they resisted pressure.
Like with Facebooks post Trump 2.0 turnabout. It would be interesting to see the actual emails or letters from the officials showing what this pressure supposedly was and about what cases. This is just another big tech company giving Jim Jordan another letter he wanted.
mc32•4mo ago
Are we certain the gov sought and pointed out all violators of terms or only the ones the gov didn’t like?
Like, I’m sure Reddit users by the millions violated that platforms terms… did millions get the boot?
db48x•4mo ago