Democrat Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., was censored by YouTube. The social media giant is owned by Google a subsidiary of Alphabet. Photo courtesy FotoJet.
The following article has some excerpts from Fox News.
It seems in today’s world that social media giants are imposing China controlled censorship on Americans, including Presidential candidates. Is this election inference? Are there concerns over this?
China foreign expert Gordon G. Chang opined in a Washington Times Op-Ed that
“Google’s most disturbing Chinese initiatives involve the co-development of technology. Cooperation of this sort is so injurious to the United States that it should be criminalized, by emergency presidential order.”
“Google, the Alphabet Inc. unit, also believes its projects in China are benign. “We are not working with the Chinese military,” a Google spokesperson said in the middle of March.
“The denial was clear and unambiguous. It was, as far as is publicly known, true.
“Google’s words, however, were exceedingly deceptive. Google is a participant in ventures in China that it must know directly benefit the People’s Liberation Army, the military of the Communist Party.
“Google has two cooperative partnerships and one investment that are of special concern. First, the company runs the Google AI China Center, established in 2017 in Beijing.
“Second, Google is participating in AI research at Tsinghua University, one of China’s two premier institutions, and is working with Peking University, the other top institution.
“All three ventures are nominally civilian.
“So why is Google’s categorical denial deceptive? In China today, Xi Jinping, the ambitious ruler, has vigorously promoted a trend he inherited from Hu Jintao, his predecessor: “civil-military fusion.” “Fusion,” as the word implies, means all civilian research is pipelined into the military.”
On Saturday YouTube took down an interview of Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. On Sunday, both Kennedy and Dr. Jordan Peterson tweeted that the video-sharing website had taken down their interview from an episode of Peterson’s show and accused the social media platform of censorship and interfering with a presidential campaign.
“What do you think… Should social media platforms censor presidential candidates?” Kennedy asked on Twitter. “My conversation with [Peterson] was deleted by [YouTube].”
“Luckily you can watch it here on @Twitter (thank you @Elon Musk),” Kennedy added, going off in a Twitter thread.
“Maybe you can help me figure out what ‘misinformation’ was in this interview,” Kennedy tweeted.
What do you think … Should social media platforms censor presidential candidates? My conversation with @JordanBPeterson was deleted by @YouTube. Luckily you can watch it here on @Twitter (thank you @elonmusk). #Kennedy24https://t.co/PJFKWH6zmd
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) June 18, 2023
“Now [YouTube] has taken upon itself to actively interfere with a presidential election campaign,” Peterson tweeted.
Kennedy’s campaign told Fox News Digital that although “vaccines are not a major priority for Mr. Kennedy in this campaign, he will be happy to debate the issue with any prominent proponent of the conventional view.”
“Mr. Kennedy does not believe the attacks are coordinated. People are simply speaking out according to what they believe,” Kennedy’s campaign said. “These beliefs are the result of the long influence of corporate money in medicine, research, media, and government.”
“Even so, there are troubling indications in published research of serious safety issues with vaccines in general, but especially the Covid shots,” they continued. “The real issue for Mr. Kennedy is regulatory capture and corporate influence over government. He is in favor of properly conducted, unbiased, transparent safety testing of all vaccines.
A Google spokesperson told Fox News Digital YouTube “removed a video from the Jordan Peterson channel for violating YouTube’s general vaccine misinformation policy, which prohibits content that alleges that vaccines cause chronic side effects, outside of rare side effects that are recognized by health authorities.”
Additionally, the spokesperson said the company “removed a video from the Jordan Peterson channel featuring a conversation with Robert F Kennedy Jr.” and that Google’s “Community Guidelines apply equally to all creators on our platform, regardless of political viewpoint.”
Regardless of whether YouTube enforces censorship equally across all political barriers or not is not the issue. The issue is that as a part of the digital public square YouTube does not have censorship authority over Presidential candidates, stay at home moms, or community newspapers like The Standard. The YouTube channel for this newspaper was censored last year and YouTube refuses to reinstate thousands of hours of our work and the videos associated with that work.
The First Amendment secures and guarantees freedom of speech and ideas. YouTube regularly violates the US Constitution in favor of censorship, while stealing the work of video producers.
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