Posted on 10/11/2021 6:50:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
American politicians and judges, pay attention. A German court has ruled that YouTube cannot arbitrarily suspend accounts that express concerns over Covid-related topics ranging from lockdowns to face masks to vaccines.
JUST IN – German court rules suspension of @YouTube channel, created by artists and actors who criticized the #COVID19 restrictions of the government, is unlawful.
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) October 11, 2021
YouTube has taken their already-draconian censorship to much higher levels in recent weeks, handing out suspensions and bans to individual creators and news outlets like candy on Halloween. Most recently, YouTube suspended the German accounts for Russian news outlets RT over Covid ‘misinformation’, prompting Moscow to threaten a complete ban of the Google-owned video property.
American politicians, mostly Republicans, have been talking about ending censorship and holding Big Tech companies accountable for using their powers to suppress content based on their far-left political bias. Thus far, nothing has been done in DC and only a handful of states have made real attempts to pass legislation stopping censorship.
Covid-19 “misinformation” in the eyes of Big Tech is anything that goes against the narrative handed down by the powers-that-be. Anything that does not promote universal vaccinations and total government control is taboo on sites like YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter.
It would be ironic if Germany leads the way for governments to start pushing back against Big Tech tyranny. As I said before, American politicians and judges need to pay attention.
They push for what they can get away with, until they get stopped, then the left just retries until it gets old of the issue is given to them.
Wow! When Germans think you have jumped the shark on censorship, that is impressive!
Or maybe it’s a feint.
What kind of alternate dimension have I ended up in where Russians and Germans have free speech and I don’t?
If only it were an alternative dimension. It is the universe where hegelian/marxist utopian theology has become mainstream. Stand firm, my friend. Reality will win out in the end and those who recognize it will also win.
heh.
It takes the Germans to put their foot down re censorship while our Courts do nothing; our SCOTUS sucks
lol — exactly!
Even MORE ironic is Moscow threatening a complete ban of YouTube.
Can you imagine that? The Russkies are the bastion of freedom of the press?
What a shame that the U.S. courts haven’t done what Germany has done and what Moscow is threatening.
The Republicans, as usual, are cowering in the corner, afraid of being called meanies.
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