CNN’s Kirsten Powers Hilariously Leveled When She Talks About Censoring Republicans.
As RedState’s Becca Lower reported, YouTube — after taking down tens of thousands of videos that it termed “misinformation” regarding the results of the 2020 election — is now doing an about-face.
The Google-owned service, in an unsigned blog post Friday, tried to explain it this way: “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.”
YouTube also noted, “As with any update to our policies, we carefully deliberated this change.”
Looking towards the 2024 election season that is just getting underway, the company wrote:
“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.”
Well-said. Now. But it was also true for the entire time they were removing videos over the last three years. And now they want to try to make up with people and pretend they care about free speech? Sorry if I don’t believe it. They took a political side and now they can’t roll it back.
Leaving this here: 🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/claSYFWInM
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) June 3, 2023