Posted on 07/23/2019 2:39:19 AM PDT by Kaslin
Last week, at the invitation of Sen. Ted Cruz, I spoke to the Senate Judiciary Committee about Google's having placed more than 60 Prager University videos on its restricted list. Any family that filters out pornography and violence cannot see those particular videos on YouTube (which is owned by Google); nor can any school or library.
This statement is as much about what I and PragerU stand for as it is about Google. Those interested in viewing the presentation can do so here:
It is an honor to be invited to speak in the United States Senate. But I wish I were not so honored. Because the subject of this hearing -- Google and YouTube's (and for that matter, Twitter and Facebook's) suppression of internet content on ideological grounds -- threatens the future of America more than any external enemy.
In fact, never in American history has there been as strong a threat to freedom of speech as there is today.
Before addressing this, however, I think it important that you know a bit about me and the organization I co-founded, Prager University -- PragerU, as it often referred to.
I was born in Brooklyn, New York. My late father, Max Prager, was a CPA and an Orthodox Jew who volunteered to serve in the U.S. Navy at the start of World War II. My father's senior class thesis at the City College of New York was on anti-Semitism in America. Yet, despite his keen awareness of the subject, he believed that Jews living in America were the luckiest Jews to have ever lived.
He was right. Having taught Jewish history at Brooklyn College, written a book on antisemitism and fought Jew-hatred my whole life, I thank God for living in America.
It breaks my heart that a vast number of young Americans have not only not been taught how lucky they are to be Americans but have been taught either how unlucky they are or how ashamed they should be.
It breaks my heart for them because contempt for one's country leaves a terrible hole in one's soul and because ungrateful people always become unhappy and angry people.
And it breaks my heart for America because no good country can survive when its people have contempt for it.
I have been communicating this appreciation of America for 35 years as a radio talk show host, the last 20 in national syndication with the Salem Radio Network -- an organization that is a blessing in American life. One reason I started PragerU was to communicate America's moral purpose and moral achievements, both to young Americans and to young people around the world. With a billion views a year, and with more than half of the viewers under age 35, PragerU has achieved some success.
My philosophy of life is easily summarized: God wants us to be good. Period. God without goodness is fanaticism and goodness without God will not long endure. Everything I and PragerU do emanates from belief in the importance of being a good person. That some label us extreme or "haters" only reflects on the character and the broken moral compass of those making such accusations. They are the haters and extremists.
PragerU releases a five-minute video every week. Our presenters include three former prime ministers, four Pulitzer Prize winners, liberals, conservatives, gays, blacks, Latinos, atheists, believers, Jews, Christians, Muslims and professors and scientists from MIT, Harvard, Stanford and a dozen other universities.
Do you think the secretary-general of NATO; or the former prime ministers of Norway, Canada or Spain; or the late Charles Krauthammer; or Philip Hamburger, distinguished professor of law at Columbia Law School, would make a video for an extreme or hate-filled site? The idea is not only preposterous; it is a smear.
Yet, Google, which owns YouTube, has restricted access to 56 of our 320 five-minute videos and to other videos we produce. "Restricted" means families that have a filter to avoid pornography and violence cannot see that video. It also means that no school or library can show that video.
Google has even restricted access to a video on the Ten Commandments ... Yes, the Ten Commandments!
We have repeatedly asked Google why our videos are restricted. No explanation is ever given.
But of course, we know why: because they come from a conservative perspective.
Liberals and conservatives differ on many issues. But they have always agreed that free speech must be preserved. While the left has never supported free speech, liberals always have. I therefore appeal to liberals to join us in fighting on behalf of America's crowning glory -- free speech. Otherwise, I promise you, one day you will say, "First they came after conservatives, and I said nothing. And then they came after me. And there was no one left to speak up for me."
Google was used by Obama to create Arab Spring, which turned into a freaking disaster internationally, creating millions of Muslim refugees aimed at the heart of Europe in a quest of world wide caliphate. Putin invaded Crimea and Western Ukraine to make sure none of these millions of refugees entered the soft underbelly of Mother Russia.Google played a crucial role in this international debacle by providing communications to the invaders.
In 2008 Hillary Clinton in the State Department trained Arab Grad students how to use Google for social messaging and social organization. Google gained its milk teeth in social control in Libya, Egypt and Syria. Google gained its eye teeth for totalitarianism by implementing social control in China as a contractor for the Red Chinese Government.
And now Google seeks to undermine democracy in America by sinking its liberal fascist fangs into our 1st amendment rights, creating a generation of liberal fascists. All of this in the Obama mold, creating the basis for Civil War II
wherein sanctuary cities and states want to have our nation run by the ideology of racial and ethnic minorities rather than the Constitution. (President Donald Trunp is now leading the social conflict bt defining and ridiculing the Squad of 4 harpies.)
Its time to break up Google the Monopoly. They are a threat to peace world wide.
And here is the history of the ideology that allowed it all to happen:
“Barack Obama: The Quintessential Liberal Fascist”:
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html
I usually do not use Google. But it does have very good search algorithms and sometimes I do have to turn to Google to get the search results that I want.
I use duckduckgo.com for my search engine. However I found that google is excellent when I want to find a translation
I use duckduckgo or whatever the default search in the browser is. At work, it’s bing—which complains if I have to resort to Google for a search. Bing tells me that it is a perfectly good search engine and I should try it.
A small correction: Putin’s Russia invaded Eastern Ukraine, not Western Ukraine, and I don’t believe that Ukraine — whether eastern or western — has been the destination for African or Middle Eastern muslims. If it were, they could enter western Ukraine and penetrate into eastern Ukraine and Belarus from there.
I hope someone is working on a book about the way that Obama and Google worked together. If I remember correctly, people from Google were regular visitors to the Obama white house. I may be confusing Google with Facebook.
Google and YouTube’s (and for that matter, Twitter and Facebook’s) suppression of internet content on ideological grounds — threatens the future of America more than any external enemy.
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Personally, I’m not so sure it is purely domestic.
They and even amazon are content editors, not platforms. Content editors= publishers, publishers= libel. Sue them now.
I may be confusing Google with Facebook.>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Both were instrumental in the Arab Spring program, most visibly in Egypt on behalf of the Muslim Brotherhood.Thank G_d they were defeated in Egypt, or otherwise Egypt would look much like Libya is today.
Putin invaded Crimea and Western Ukraine to make sure none of these millions of refugees entered the soft underbelly of Mother Russia.
Now that is crazy talk. Have you been to Russia lately? I have. Let me tell you something: it is full of Muslims. Muslim Central Asia is to Russia as Mexico is to the US.
Dr. Robert Epstein suggested Startpage.com
I switched and have not been disappointed so far.
The foundation of America is TRUTH*. Google and other currently leftist media** hide truth that counters and exposes the falseness of their worldview. They are anti-American. They are evil.
* The Declaration of Independence begins “We hold these TRUTHS to be self-evident...”. Most people would claim “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” are America’s key values. They are not. Respect for TRUTH is. (Second is a belief in The Creator.)
** My faith is that God is greater than the godless media, and that it will in due season be reformed or replaced.
Now that is crazy talk. Have you been to Russia lately? I have. Let me tell you something: it is full of Muslims. Muslim Central Asia is to Russia as Mexico is to the US.>>>>>>>>>>>>>
It would be far worse if Putin did not keep the Muslim refugee hordes south of the Bosporus.Look at Germany, Italy and Sweden right now. Russia will not allow it for themselves.
BTW, the Russians have been embattled controlling any influx of Muslims for at least 1000 years, and it continues today.Its a legacy of Slavic Europe since Vlad the Impaler. Vlad Putin is continuing the legacy.
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