YouTube also: -Admits the Biden Admin censorship pressure was “unacceptable and wrong” -Confirms that the Biden Admin wanted Americans censored for speech that did not violate YouTube’s policies -Details when YouTube began rolling back its censorship policies on political

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During the Biden-Harris years, under White House pressure, YouTube changed its policies to censor political debate on COVID and elections. TODAY, YouTube admits that the censorship pressure from Biden Admin was “unacceptable and wrong.”

Now, to make amends to the American people, and because of our work, YouTube is rolling back its censorship policies on political speech, including topics such as COVID and elections.

What does that mean? Whether you were an established YouTube presence with a massive following like @dbongino or just were starting out to express political views there, YOU will have an opportunity to come back onto the platform if you were censored for engaging in political

This is another victory in the fight against censorship. In Aug 2024, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote the Committee a letter admitting: 1. Biden Admin “pressured” Facebook to censor Americans. 2. Facebook censored Americans. 3. Facebook throttled the Hunter Biden laptop story.

Even as Meta admitted the Biden-Harris censorship was wrong, others in Big Tech were reluctant to go on the record. Now Google is acknowledging, for the first time, that it too faced censorship pressure from the Biden White House and that pressure was “unacceptable and wrong.”

But that’s not all. YouTube is making changes to its platform to prevent future censorship. YouTube is committing to the American people that it will NEVER use outside so-called “fact-checkers” to censor speech. No more telling Americans what to believe and not believe.

YouTube also is trying out Community Notes. @elonmusk was ahead of the curve. Meta followed suit. And now YouTube.

And YouTube confirms that Europe is targeting American speech and innovation. Here it admits that European social-media laws place a “disproportionate regulatory burden on American companies.”

YouTube warns that Europe could force companies to remove LAWFUL social-media content and could risk freedom of expression “within and OUTSIDE of the EU.” That’s right. Europe wants to censor your online speech even if you aren’t in Europe!

Google and YouTube credit @JudiciaryGOP for bringing transparency of and accountability for Big Tech’s censorship. We will continue to hold Big Tech accountable.

Read GOOGLE’s whole letter to the Committee here: https://judiciary.house.gov/si...

All the above are MASSIVE wins for the American people, the First Amendment, and freedom. We won’t stop fighting to protect free speech.

@Jim_Jordan Insufficient. They will come back with no rankings on algorithms and be forced to build them back up. Could take months or years. At minimum Google should refund the gains they missed on during this period.

@Jim_Jordan They specify only creators who were banned for stuff about covid or the 2020 election.

@Jim_Jordan So YouTube is only unbanning people who were targeted over COVID/election 'misinformation?' Meaning if we were banned for exercising lawful opinions about Ukraine, LGBT movement, or Israel - we will remain BANNED?

@Jim_Jordan This statement contains straight up lies. Google-youtube often labels videos it does not like with misleading accusations of conspiracy theory. It does this in an authoritarian and nontransparent way completely counter to systems like community notes. I guarantee you can find

@Jim_Jordan @Jim_Jordan but what if Alexandre de Moraes says he’ll kick Google out of Brazil if they welcome certain creators back?

@Jim_Jordan Yet they continue to censor us and kick us off for unexplained reasons. I have had 4 accounts deleted and removed by @Google @YouTube since this time. They flag a video and say we violated their policies. They fail to show evidence of policy violation and have an automated

@Jim_Jordan Google: “Look we admit we censured America but Biden forced us too and YouTube is really the tech company you should be investigating!” YouTube: “You’re literally my parent company…”

@Jim_Jordan You and your bullshit letters. Without fines or criminal wrongdoing, this is just another "whoopsies, we are sorry" gesture from YouTube. Where are the scalps, Congressman????

@Jim_Jordan This doesn’t seem to apply to all people who were censors for political speech. Just SOME political speech.

@Jim_Jordan YouTube in the past automatically demonetizes or deletes videos that question vaccines, pharma, or government narratives—even when citing peer-reviewed studies. This made open debate nearly impossible What they brand “misinformation” often turns out to be warnings later

@Jim_Jordan Does that mean Google will remonetize creators who were cut off due to the conservative content of their speech?

@Jim_Jordan @BretWeinstein what about channels that were not fully deplatformed but demonetized for unspecified violations ? Will they be paid back all the loss of income for the past 5 years ?

@Jim_Jordan If censored for political speech is behind these harms then return to the platform is not enough. These creators must be made whole. The potential revenues they would have earned in the time their rights violated must be restored to them with punitive adjustment.

@Jim_Jordan Hi @Jim_Jordan thank you for all the hard work you have done to bring this issue to light. Our 2.4mm subscriber YouTube channel of 12 years was deplatformed 2 years ago due to Covid-related "medical misinformation", how do we go about getting replatformed? Does anyone here

@Jim_Jordan They give a timeline??

@Jim_Jordan Now do banks. Debanking thought crimes

@Jim_Jordan Have they named who they’ve censored and specifically why? Will this restore monetization? Will this be codified into law with significant penalties for future censorious actions and any coverup?

@Jim_Jordan Ok with Google admitting the censorship, when can we arrest the government officials who violated our 1st amendment rights?

@Jim_Jordan IT’S ABOUT TIME! I still harbor such ANGER about the Biden Administration’s takeover of the public square. Because of it, my family shunned me during Covid, believing like robots what was allowed to filter through the Left’s control of mainstream & social media. For TWO years I

@Jim_Jordan Will Google compensate those deplatformed and censored who lost years of revenue?

@Jim_Jordan Now, they must end their "borderline content" policy and other types of algorithmic suppression. This is not over.

@Jim_Jordan Ohhh who do I contact? My channel got demonetized and President Trump’s speech (without our commentary, as all our videos are raw footage of events) on January 6th has been deleted by @YouTubeCreators repeatedly.