YouTube removed hours of videos that were live-streamed at last month’s Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC).
Federalist reported that the platform, which is owned by Google, removed videos from speakers like former President Donald Trump that discussed Big Tech’s alleged meddling in the 2020 election.
CPAC Chairman Matt Schlapp slammed the decision and said the organization’s channel received a “strike.” YouTube “strikes” can result in suspensions or permanent bans if a certain number is accumulated.
“Regardless of your personal beliefs and those of your senior leadership (not to mention your absolute liberal bias), there remain very serious questions about the way the 2020 election was conducted. No matter what you do, removing our content will not eliminate these questions. Indeed, it is telling you offer no evidence that would demonstrate any falsity in the content you censored,” Schlapp wrote in a letter to Google according to Breitbart.
Rachel Bovard–the Senior Tech Columnist at Federalist whose segment with the publication’s co-founder Sean Davis and Sen. James Lankford was also removed–told the publication that the removal was part of a pattern of censorship:
“In a matter of weeks, Big Tech platforms have banned speech identifying biological men as men, removed video of a sitting U.S. senator criticizing them, banned a news service for streaming a speech from former President Trump, and changed policy to allow calls for assassinations, as long as they’re against Russians. They are the largest speech platforms worldwide and actively seek to alter free speech culture across America. They aren’t scared of their users, and they aren’t scared of Congress. They can’t be ashamed. It’s time for Congress to act aggressively.”
“In America, the people rule. The tech tyrants are not the ones who rule. The time for our self-government to act is growing more urgent by the day,” she added.
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