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by skywhopper 265 days ago
Pure propaganda. Biden folks talked to YouTube in hopes they would do what they could to stop COVID disinformation from spreading in a wildly dangerous time. They put public pressure on them? (I never saw it but that’s what the letter claims.) That’s not censorship.

Google could and did do what it wanted. The Biden admin didn’t threaten to revoke licenses or stop mergers over this stuff.

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> COVID disinformation

Which was defined as merely questioning official sources, pretending such sources provided nothing but the absolute truth.