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You've missed the point entirely. It’s not if Google can decide what content they want on YouTube. The issue here is that the Biden Whitehouse was pressuring
by nostromo 1y ago
You've missed the point entirely.
It’s not if Google can decide what content they want on YouTube.
The issue here is that the Biden Whitehouse was pressuring private companies to remove speech that they otherwise would host.
That's a clear violation of the first amendment. And we now know that the previous Whitehouse got people banned from all the major platforms: Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, etc.
- homeonthemtn 1y ago[flagged]
- nostromo 1y agoThankfully the constitution explicitly forbids that in the US.
- homeonthemtn 1y ago[flagged]
- mensetmanusman 1y agoThat was abc, and they just put him back.
- themaninthedark 1y agoHuh, last I heard was that Jimmy Kimmel is back on air. If the Trump administration had decided to follow through with their threats, ABC could have sued and won. Lastly, Jimmy Kimmel could have(and still possibly might be able to) sue for tortious interference.
- abracadaniel 1y agoNexstar and Sinclair are still blocking their stations from airing him which accounts for a quarter of the US.
- frollogaston 1y agoThey're private companies. If the reason they're doing this is govt pressure (FCC licenses?), that's not ok though.
- SV_BubbleTime 1y ago[flagged]
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- dotnet00 1y agoThey claim that the Biden admin pressured them to do it, except that they had been voluntarily doing it even during Trump's initial presidency. The current administration has been openly threatening companies over anything and everything they don't like, it isn't surprising all of the tech companies are claiming they actually support the first amendment and were forced by one of the current administration's favorite scapegoats to censor things.
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