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Democrats challenged the results of the 2000 and 2004 elections, and outright launched an investigation into their conspiracy theories involving the 2016 election that involved the DOJ and federal agencies. Part of this soft coup also criminalized “misinformation” under the guise of claiming that misinformation somehow changed the outcome of the 2016 election. Fast forward to 2020, and the Left used the charge of misinformation to censor anyone questioning the results of the 2020 election.
Now, with the 2024 election underway and Biden polling poorly, Google’s YouTube suddenly decided that it’s time to legalize election denial.
“Today we are announcing a new set of updates on YouTube to address and protect our community — providing a home for open discussion and debate during the ongoing election season.
“When we craft our policies, we always keep two goals in mind: protecting our community, and providing a home for open discussion and debate. These goals are sometimes in tension with each other, and there is perhaps no area where striking a balance is more complex than political speech. The ability to openly debate political ideas, even those that are controversial or based on disproven assumptions, is core to a functioning democratic society–especially in the midst of election season.”
That’s oddly liberal of Google. It discarded the very notion that “the ability to openly debate political ideas, even those that are controversial or based on disproven assumptions, is core to a functioning democratic society” and even while it will now allow challenging election results, it’s still censoring a host of non-leftist views, including those involving global warming.
“We first instituted a provision of our elections misinformation policy focused on the integrity of past US Presidential elections in December 2020, once the states’ safe harbor date for certification had passed. Two years, tens of thousands of video removals, and one election cycle later, we recognized it was time to reevaluate the effects of this policy in today’s changed landscape. In the current environment, we find that while removing this content does curb some misinformation, it could also have the unintended effect of curtailing political speech without meaningfully reducing the risk of violence or other real-world harm. With that in mind, and with 2024 campaigns well underway, we will stop removing content that advances false claims that widespread fraud, errors, or glitches occurred in the 2020 and other past US Presidential elections.”
At no point in time did Google censor claims about the 2016 election or the 2000 election. It limited its censorship to conservatives questioning races that were awarded to leftists.
Period. Full stop.
There’s no apparent reason for Google to change course other than perhaps a risk fo falling afoul of Big Tech censorship laws passed in some states like Florida and Texas, which are still being disputed, but, much more likely a response to the 2024 election.
With Biden polling badly, Big Tech wants to create a safe harbor for the next wave of election denialism (which won’t be called that and which will be even more massive and comprehensive than in 2016).
But if Biden wins, then questioning the results will be banned again.
There’s a simple guide to “election denialism”. It’s always banned when conservatives do it, it’s always legit when leftists do it.
There are two sets of rules and the only governing principle behind them is politics.
Yeah, and Google knows the Dirtbagocrats will cheat in 2024, just like they always do. It’s just trying to head off criticism.
Scumbag organization.
The only thing Trump is accomplishing now is guaranteeing every Democrat(alive or dead) will go out to vote and vote early. On our side there’s only failure to vote for. It doesn’t matter how Biden polls. Biden is weekend at Bernie’s for the win.
No doubt they’ll vote early — and often. Especially voters who represent the Dead community, many of whom were Republicans when they were alive. My father has been voting Democrat for twenty years now, which would have surprised him before his heavenly change of party registration.
That reminded me. LBJ got his start by stealing elections in Texas. I wonder how many people know that?
Trump has a master plan to counteract this and that master plan involves lurching leftward just like every McCain style idiot before him that earned him the GOP protest nomination that defeated Hillary to start off with. That’s history repeating.
What a load of shit.
I tried to explain elsewhere how Trump is a businessman and took a businessman’s approach to the Presidency. Which is different from the typical politicians approach, and set the economy on a positive track. But the other person didn’t understand what I was saying, so I abandoned the discussion 🙂
The other person is an asshole. An executive is whose needed for the top government executive position.
I have a feeling that the Democrats are seriously trying to get Biden out of the race, for fear of losing the election.
He’s a loser. Only cheating and fraud can elect him, just like last time.
My trash collectors do more work before lunch than Joe Biden has done in half a century, (but their work is useful.). We are living a coup d’etat. #4. #1 Wilson, #2 FDR #3 LBJ now jobam.
President Trump has been buffered from evil by money. He may now recognize true evil face to face for the first time in his life.
Hillary thought the fix was in, so she was lazy. But they set the algorhythm too low-in order not to be too blatant. So she lost. The shock of it will mean that the fraud will be deeper, more intense, maybe more hidden.
Obama, Hillary and Bill, Biden, LBJ and a bunch of others, are sociopaths-maybe some are even psychopaths. The lure of power and easy money in politics attracts sociopaths.