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2 years is a pretty long ban for a not even illegal conduct. Although if they got banned during the start of covid during the Trump administration then we're t
by lesuorac 1y ago
2 years is a pretty long ban for a not even illegal conduct.
Although if they got banned during the start of covid during the Trump administration then we're talking about 5 years.
- jackmottatx 1y ago[dead]
- Simulacra 1y agoThey went against a government narrative. This wasn't Google/Youtube banning so much as government ordering private companies to do so.
- stronglikedan 1y ago[flagged]
- 3cKU 1y ago[flagged]
- LeafItAlone 1y agoAnd do you think the impetuous behind this action happening now is any different? In both cases YouTube is just doing what the government wants.
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> wasn't Google/Youtube banning so much as government ordering private companies to do so No, it was not. It’s particularly silly to suggest this when we have live example of such orders right now. The companies were nudged. (And they were wrong to respond to public pressure.) The President, after all, has a “bully pulpit.” But there were no orders, no credibly threats and plenty of companies didn’t deplatform these folks.
- starik36 1y agoThat was certainly the case with Twitter. It came out during the congressional hearings. FBI had a direct line to the decision makers.
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> was certainly the case with Twitter It was not. No threats were made, and Twitter didn’t blindly follow the FBI’s guidance. The simple truth is the leftist elements that wanted to control the debate were there in the White House and in Twitter’s San Francisco offices. Nobody had to be coerced, they were coördinating.
- brokencode 1y agoA direct line to threaten decision makers? Or to point out possible misinformation spreaders?
- starik36 1y agoThreaten. Because of the implication.
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> Because of the implication What was the implication? Twitter had no business in front of the federal government. They were wilfully complying. That doesn't make it okay. But it's a total retconning of actual history to suggest this was government censorship in any form.
- dotnet00 1y agoMusk owned Twitter for years of the Biden admin, at least one year of that was him openly simping for Trump. So... what sort of threat was this, that suddenly disappeared when Musk bought it? How credible was the threat if Musk was able to release the Twitter Files without repercussions from the Biden admin?
- asadotzler 1y agoNo one owes them any distribution at all.