[Yo-Yo]

We need the government to step in with regulations to stop this kind of behavior since these companies don't have a competitor to go to. They have a monopoly just like utility companies so they must be regulated and regulated fast.

Utilities are regulated monopolies because we pay them.

Google as a private entity can pay ad revenue to whomever they wish.

First Amendment rights do not extend to speech stored on a private server and getting paid for the privilege.

If Google is to be regulated, it should only extend to the level of "public accommodation." They can only delete content from a subscriber that puts Google in direct legal jeopardy (copyright violations, etc.) But they should retain the right to decide who they reward with payment and who they choose to withhold payment.

Demonetization is already happening to most of the YouTube channels I subscribe to, and the channels' responses have been to move to other hosting services such as Full30, and to become funded via Patreon.

There will be something seriously wrong with this country if the government all of the sudden has the power to dictate to a private company who they must pay money to.

[raybbr]

Yeah, it’s interesting to see people who would bristle at the suggestion that FReerepublic be told what it can and cannot do with its private website but want the gubmint to step and in control someone else’s.

[unlearner]

“There will be something seriously wrong with this country if the government all of the sudden has the power to dictate to a private company who they must pay money to.”

Wrong. Alphabet, which is the parent company of Google, is a public company.

Public companies should stick to making a return on investment for their investors. They should not get into politics or anything else that is not driven by the companies’ respective purposes for existing.

Otherwise, public companies should be required to get investor approval for every penny they use for lobbying, advocacy, and charity.

When companies like Google engage in discriminatory politics and anti-religious censorship, they are robbing the public of the public’s right to determine these things.

Google is using the retirement account funds of many conservatives and Christians to attack conservatives and Christians.

And make no mistake. We are at war. I’m not exaggerating. I’m talking about an existential struggle. What the executives at Google are doing here is putting a gun to our head.