| ▲ | nostromo 10 hours 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. |
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| ▲ | dotnet00 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| They 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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| ▲ | homeonthemtn 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| If you can't be trusted to police your self, then it's a natural result that others will do it for you. |
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| ▲ | nostromo 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | Thankfully the constitution explicitly forbids that in the US. | | |
| ▲ | homeonthemtn 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | Evidently it does not because it happens all the time. See: Jimmy Kimmel 2 nights ago as your most recent example. | | |
| ▲ | themaninthedark 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Huh, 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 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | Nexstar and Sinclair are still blocking their stations from airing him which accounts for a quarter of the US. | | |
| ▲ | frollogaston 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | They're private companies. If the reason they're doing this is govt pressure (FCC licenses?), that's not ok though. |
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| ▲ | SV_BubbleTime 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Kimmel intentionally spread a lie to his audiences for political gain. Turns out that is against the terms of ABC’s FCC broadcast license. They asked him to apologize and he refused, so they suspended him. | | | |
| ▲ | mensetmanusman 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | That was abc, and they just put him back. |
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