Recently, I wrote a column about Meta’s restoration of free speech protections after the company admitted to censoring users on platforms like Facebook. The company also revealed that it was pressured by the Biden Administration to conduct such censorship. Now, Google has taken the same step in restoring a number of YouTube accounts and pledging to show greater respect for free speech.
Google made the disclosure in a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH):
“Reflecting the Company’s commitment to free expression, YouTube will provide an opportunity for all creators to rejoin the platform if the company terminated their channels for repeated violations of COVID-19 and elections integrity policies that are no longer in effect.”
This is another major victory for free speech. Google specifically acknowledged past political censorship and stated that it “values conservative voices on its platform.”
The company, for the first time, admitted that it yielded to comprehensive pressure from the Biden Administration to censor Americans. It acknowledged that the Biden censorship pressure was “unacceptable and wrong” and pledged to resist such pressure in the future.
Meta has substantially reduced censorship by replicating the approach of Elon Musk at X. These changes are a testament to Musk’s legacy in the restoration of free speech on social media. As I previously noted, we need companies like Facebook and Google. These are companies that are big enough to stand up to the European Union (EU) and its unrelenting campaign against free speech.
The censorship on Google and YouTube had a harmful impact beyond the loss of free speech. It suppressed opposing views on Covid policies from the efficacy of masks to the need to shutdown our schools.
The very figures claiming to battle “disinformation” were suppressing opposing views that have now been vindicated as credible. It was not only the lab theory. In my recent book, I discuss how signatories of the Great Barrington Declaration were fired or disciplined by their schools or associations for questioning COVID-19 policies.
Some experts questioned the efficacy of surgical masks, the scientific support for the six-foot rule and the necessity of shutting down schools. The government has now admitted that many of these objections were valid and that it did not have hard science to support some of the policies. While other allies in the West did not shut down their schools, we never had any substantive debate due to the efforts of this alliance of academic, media and government figures.
Not only did millions die from the pandemic, but the United States is still struggling with the educational and mental health consequences of shutting down all our public schools. That is the true cost of censorship when the government works with the media to stifle scientific debate and public disclosures.
The disclosure is also a blow to many Democratic members of Congress who long attacked witnesses, including myself, who testified against the coordinated censorship by corporate and government officials. Before the release of the Twitter files, members insisted that there was no evidence of such coordination. Some still deny such coordination despite multiple companies now confirming it.
The greatest challenge, however, still lies ahead for these companies. The EU remains the greatest threat to free speech facing Americans. After Musk purchased X with a pledge to restore free speech, figures like former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton demanded that the EU use its infamous Digital Services Act to force X to censor Americans.
The EU has threatened Musk with confiscatory fines that could surpass $1 billion, according to The New York Times.
The Trump administration has warned the EU about its efforts to censor Americans. Meta and Google can now join X in creating a formidable corporate alliance for free speech. For the first time, the free speech community might have a coalition of government and corporate allies that could stand up to the EU.
There will likely remain a degree of mistrust from the free speech community towards these companies after years of censorship and stonewalling. However, we also need to accept our allies where and when we can find them. Free speech is in a free fall in Europe and many on the left are encouraging similar censorship laws for the United States. We need these companies and should support them as they take meaningful actions in favor of free speech.
So bravo, Google, bravo.
Here is the full letter: Google Letter
Now, now, the Hildabeast says it ain’t so. Says it’s now a global MAGA conspiracy against..,them. Back when they were raking in all the cash from the Haitian Earthquake donations, it was just a “vast Republican conspiracy against.., her.”
“WICKED: Democrats Send Out Soulless Hillary to Gaslight Americans that Democrats Are Actually the Victims of Censorship – List Includes Every Single Thing Fascist Left Did to Censor and Silence Republicans”
–by Jim Hoft Sep. 24, 2025 9:15 am
Excerpts:
“Democrats offer nothing but gaslighting, lies, pain and destruction.” “Democrats believe they have a winning talking point that Republicans are the party of censorship and suppression in America today.”
“On Wednesday, the day after Google admitted to censoring and banning conservative content on YouTube, soulless Hillary Clinton went on MSNBC to rant about conservatives censoring liberal voices.”
“Of course, they don’t even have one legitimate example of this so-called censorship of Democrats but that won’t stop the far left from pushing this brazen lie on the American public.”
(From the heinous highness herself).
Hillary Clinton: “I view it as very dangerous. It is right out of the authoritarian playbook… Silence your opponents. Cripple the media that doesn’t give you the slavish attention and agreement that you desire. Use the power of the government to go after corporations and individuals.”
Much funnier than Jimmy Kimmel.
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–Oddball
“Take it easy Big Joe, some of these people got sensitive feelings.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/09/wicked-democrats-send-soulless-hillary-gaslight-americans-that/
The political appointee of the FCC pressuring ABC to silence Jimmy Kimmel is a clear violation of the First Amendment.
The TV ratings system (PG, R, MA, etc) recognized that no American official has censorship authority. The ratings system grants that authority to parents and adults, since government doesn’t have that authority.
ano
The political appointee of the FCC pressuring ABC to silence Jimmy Kimmel is a clear violation of the First Amendment.
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Just maybe the dem-o-rats should have never given the FCC that power.
Yet the government didn’t do anything. ABC did
I was shadow banned on Twitter. Not for anything I wrote or reposted, but because I simply “followed” the “wrong” accounts. The FCC didn’t shadow ban me, Twitter did, likely under the direction of the Biden administration, the worst president and administration in American history. FJB!
these collectivist identity-assigners never provide context to their positions because they are either knowingly lying or a complete idiot & nodder.
leftys are against free speech because they cannot allow context to surface in any debate.
It must remain in the rage stage otherwise it has no effect on the populace.
The narrative is sacred but very shallow. They make the narrative easy to ‘understand’ for their ignorant minions.
“hate THEM” is all they have. easy for dopes to grasp. Context spoils the rage, stops the violence.
For all their talk of hate, they are the ultimate haters.
the dumb ones follow because they need to believe those chose correctly and cannot think for themselves.
This is how the TDS virus was made. in a political lab-like setting, unleashed on the stupid and crazy.
The main stream media knows they can drive the crazies to assassinate.
The smart ones know the truth and are the ones promoting the ignorance. evil or stupid is all they got now
The ones who understand CONTEXT IS NEEDED have changed sides.
Demand context from your radical politicians! They will wither like vampires in daylight.
https://x.com/PaulleyTicks/status/1970639436754116954
Record-high Google searches last night for ‘what time is Jimmy Kimmel on?’
You wouldn’t have to check what time Jimmy Kimmel was on if you were a regular viewer.
The reason that people were checking what time Jimmy Kimmel was on, was because he was pulling in a lot of viewers who normally didn’t watch and get this, it was up over 10,000 percent – my goodness gracious.
And it will go back to his low ratings after last night. People wanted to see if he apologized something he said he would not do when suspended
Trump made Jimmy Kimmel more popular by trying to silence him. He unintentionally made him a martyr for free speech. Way to go Trump.
Except Prez Trump didn’t. ABC did. Still lying I see
ROLF! Does your brain get overloaded when it can’t accept reality?
This is also a fairly simple task for bots.
Here’s an idea…Just never trust any entity or person who ever professed adherence to or worked with any democrat. Problem solved for those of us who seek the truth. The sheeple – well, they are human flotsam at this time suffering advanced, terminal TDS
Made it through, maybe, two paragraphs before laughing uncontrollably at your thinking this is the censorship push piece to write on assignment for fox this week, Turls. That visual plus the one of your followers being so brainwashed and delusional as to need this dreck in order not to pay attention to what’s going on right in front of their face. The idiocy they’ll direct toward my response here will be equally moronic and pathetic for sure…
But in the realm of purely tone deaf gaslighting this is top notch, Jon. Straight out of 1984.
Am I the only one that stopped reading after “Turls”? Talk about a tell.
It all depends on one’s perspective. To me, derangement like this is comedy gold.
Thanks for reading, Slobby. Frankly it’s refreshing to learn you even know how to read.
She gets paid by Chorus to post against Prof Turley.
He’s a sociopath and feels an emotion of elation after doing harm such as Turls slur.
Don’t respond.
GiGi trademark
We were told over and over when, say, social media suppressed the Hunter lsptop story, that these were private actors to whom the First Amendment did not apply. Now we learn the the government had strongarmed these “private actors” into suppressing speech.
Yet the Bidenistas have conniption fits when another private actor, ABC, temporarily deplatforms an employee for spreading misinformation.
If I thought they were serious, I’d agree, as the EU is out of control. I’ve watched Google for too long to think that unless, like Elon, they fired a large portion of the staff, it’s just lip. Google still violates the privacy of their users every time they use its products. Don’t kid yourselves, that IS the culture of Google, and this is far from the first time they have engaged in a$$ covering.
The only notable thing here, and it’s worth paying attention to: yes, they absolutely were colluding with the White House to silence you and I. Do not forget.
James,
Well said and I agree. I do not use Google so I am perfectly indifferent to the letter and not really surprised they were in collusion with the Biden Admin for censorship.
The late French politicial philosper, Jean Francois Revel, wrote a book in 1977 entitled “The Totalitarian Temptation”. Its main thesis is summarized as follows:
“Revel believed that the totalitarian temptation had two main components: the political expression of “the struggle for economic justice and the improvement of life in general” and “the desire for totalitarianism among elites.” The totalitarian temptation manifests itself when “those in power are convinced they hold the absolute Truth and represent the only legitimate political interest,” Revel explained. The power elites “consider it their right and duty to impose their truth by any means, no matter what the public may think, or better still, by preventing the public from thinking at all.” Revel writes that totalitarians reason as follows: “[W]hy should I permit freedom of opinion when it will only propagate error and impede the functioning of the one true social and moral order?”
Revel invoked Czech dissident Milovan Dijlas in ascribing these motives to a “new class,” an oligarchical elite that seeks to control the cultural, social, and political life of the nation. Such regimes pass themselves off as “progressive” but their principal goal is power, not the betterment of society.”
https://www.realclearhistory.com/articles/2022/01/10/revisiting_revels_the_totalitarian_tempation_811442.html
rejoin the platform if the company terminated their channels for repeated violations of COVID-19 and elections integrity policies that are no longer in effect.” What a bunch of crap. It should have never happened. Shame on Google and Facebook and all who allowed Biden admin to Billy them. I try hard not to use Google or YouTube. .
Duck Duck Go for me
damages were imposed on behalf of the Biden Admin and their DeepState masters running the CoVid show. It was a trial run for conformity and compliance and now let the lawsuits really begin
Shocking, just Shocking
Hold my Maple Syrup! Canada pre-censors! Look for this to happen here, where I predict that Police Body Cam footage will be withheld from the public. Just give it a few years. Criswell predicts!
Hey Floyd, yo must be running on some sort of crack, 58 hours nonstop posting here.
🙂
Ano
The child makes a funny joke and fails
And, the Democrats are at it again!
Local media in Texas reports three people were critically wounded at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in the Dallas metro area early Wednesday.
Sources tell WFAA that a “possible sniper or multiple shooters” on a nearby roof targeted three people who were wounded at the ICE facility on 8101 North Stemmons Freeway in Dallas, just off Interstate 35E.
Sources confirmed to the local outlet that the “shooter was found dead on the roof of a nearby immigration attorney’s office.”
“Three people were injured at a Dallas ICE facility on Wednesday morning and police are searching for a possible sniper or multiple shooters, police sources tell WFAA,” the outlet wrote on X.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/sniper-attack-dallas-ice-facility-leaves-three-wounded-local-media-reports
Stick to the thread.
Another dunce who thinks zerohedge is an unbiased source. Its a gossip column you silly thing.
Worried? I bet another dem-o-rat shooting law enforcement
Floyd,
And new reporting from authorities, is the casings had anti-ICE messages on them.
In other news, China and Mexico have helped us eliminate 503,800 drug users between 2020 and 2024! That is a fantastic number, and if crime rates are down in the country, probably a big part of that reduction of criminal losers! Thank you, China and Mexico! Sadly, the number of overdose deaths declined in 2024.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_drug_overdose_death_rates_and_totals_over_time
(Thank you Google for not censoring this information!)
Stick to the thread.
Another dunce who thinks wikipedia is an unbiased source.
Yet you libs use wiki all the time
DustOff,
Looks like you really have gotten under the annony morons skin!
Antifascist fascists. It could be worse. It could be Democratic Socialists (Dezis), progressive liberals (e.g. wicked solution, DEIsm, political congruence, redistributive change, ethnic Springs, etc). #HateLovesAbortion
In other news, Clyde Barrow apologized for robbing banks and killing people. He said, “Bonnie Parker put a whole lot of pressure on me, and insulted my manhood. She told me that she wouldn’t give me none unless I showed her what a bad boy I could be. I didn’t want to do all that stuff. Actually, I wanted to be a florist, and sell pretty flowers to people, but it was just too much pressure on me. I am truly sorry I done it.”
WTF cares.
WOW.. Keep it up Floyd… Ano is loosing his cookies
I shall, as long as I able to stay awake. Going on three weeks now without sleeping, posting here under various names, living rent-free in Anus-amous’s head! 🙂
Floyd,
Good one!! Keep up the good work!! You are really getting under the annony moron’s skin!
“admitted that it yielded to comprehensive pressure from the Biden Administration to censor Americans” seems like an awfully convenient excuse. They were willing and happy to do it as it also aligned with their own agenda.
Maybe Jimmy Schlemiel will bring this revelation up tonight on his monologue and condemn the parties involved……not.
The letter from Alphabet says very little, except that they obeyed the Government. Now that the Government is no longer pressuring them, they can relax somewhat the restrictions they imposed. If Democrats again gain control of the Presidency, the pressure will resume and Alphabet will go along. One way perhaps to prevent this from happening is to pass legislation that precludes the Executive Branch from pressuring social media platforms to moderate content that is not legally prohibited.
Who is going to enforce it? The administration that benefits from applying the same media pressure? It’s going to pressure its own DoJ to prosecute itself?
This is exactly why information space abuses need to be a civil tort, not a criminal matter. That enables any citizen, or group of citizens to file lawsuit against the perpetrators. Now I know, the Court processes must come up to speed (fast due process) in order to work at the pace of the infospace. This is entirely possible.
We currently only have Defamation and 1A abuses as grounds for legally deterring outright fabrications and govt. censorship. And, the lawsuits crawl along at a pace that gives the violators all kinds of time-to-market advantages.
But if we could add Public Frauds to defamation as actionable, and accelerate the advent of subpoena and compelled deposition of the accused to a few days, then I believe the proper deterrence will be achieved — where neither censorship nor propaganda are tools we cede to the power-hungry. That is the key to decentralized people power remaining the dominant factor.