FIRE:
Google condemns jawboning now, but it failed to stand up for the rights of its users when it mattered.
FIRE will continue to call on private institutions to stand up for their rights — no matter who is in office.
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In 2021 I was censored on YouTube & Facebook for accurately reporting that the Covid Vaxx did NOT stop transmission of the virus.
Now everyone knows this, but at the time people still thought it was an actual vaccine & believed the Pharma bought & corrupted corporate media.
Huge numbers now outraged by the FCC’s Kimmel threats were happy when Biden/Dems threatened Big Tech to ban dissent.
Whichever is worse, they share the same rotted principle (yet many conservatives condemned the FCC and Bondi, while almost no liberals opposed Biden’s scheme).
But Dems’ censorship under wasn’t only about coercing Big Tech to remove dissent. Key Dems like AOC forced Apple, Google and Amazon to remove the social media app Parler because they claimed it was allowing dangerous speech — and it did so once Parler had become the #1 most downloaded app in America.