YouTube creators banned under pressure from the Biden Administration will be allowed back on the platform.

 

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YouTube creators banned under pressure from the Biden Administration will be allowed back on the platform. CNBC. These channels were banned on YouTube for "misinformation" about the Covid19 pandemic and/or the 2020 election. YouTube removed many of these channels due to pressure from the Biden administration to do so, even when the channels did not violate any rules. The bans hit many prominent people associated with Trump or opposed to Joe Biden, including Deputy FBI director Dan Bongino, HHS director RFK Jr. and former Trump ally Steven Bannon. YouTube said that folks banned this way are now allowed to apply for reinstatement. 

My Comment:

Last week the Democrats were in a tizzy over Jimmy Kimmel getting suspended. It took six days for that t be reversed. Meanwhile there are thousands of people that have been banned from various social media accounts due to government pressure in the Biden administration that have just now begun to get their accounts back. YouTube isn't the only one, X/Twitter has brought back a lot of people that were banned, most notably Gavin McInnes. 

There is zero question that these accounts were banned at behest of the Biden administration. Nobody really disputes this. But for some reason when Biden wants people banned for nothing other than questioning the 2020 election or aspects of the Coronavirus pandemic. That's government censorship. Suggesting that the FCC will enforce the law that was voted on by congress is not. 

What is infuriating about this is that the covid vaccine skeptics were, at the very least, closer to the truth than the Biden administration. How effective the vaccine was is still an open debate, but if you even said something moderate, like low risk people and children should avoid the vaccine if possible due to the possibly of side effects, you got banned. Sure, some folks went off the deep end, saying that the vaccine was going to kill everyone that took it and it was some kind of depopulation effort, but the moderates got lumped into the crazies and nothing but a pro-administration. And I'd argue that the 2020 election censorship is even worse, even today it's hard to discuss without risking a ban. 

This was, of course, an injustice. It is good that YouTube is finally reversing this. But they didn't do this on their own. The Biden administration leaned on them hard. This is, of course, a violation of free speech. And it's crazy how the left doesn't seem to recognize just how bad their side is on this issue. 

I do think this is a good example of how insecure the Democrats were under Biden. They understood that a lot of their ideas did not hold up under scrutiny. Instead, they had to ban people from speaking out. This chilling effect was working when the left had total control over social media. This changed, of course, the second Elon Musk bought Twitter and turned it into X, with a much looser moderation policy (though I still occasionally get dinged by it). Once folks were able to openly say that the emperor had no clothes, everything fell apart for the Democrats.