Big Tech platforms no longer deny they are banning conservatives but are now brazenly owning up to it and daring anyone to do something about it
by: JD Heyes
NaturalNews.com
Sunday, June 30, 2019
Earlier this month, Zero Hedge published a story that should have alarmed everyone who read it â that is, everyone who is interested in maintaining a free, open Internet and social media platforms that are designed for everyone and all views.
Citing a Wall Street Journal story, the news site noted:
Google has fired six of its largest lobbying firms in an attempt to overhaul its global government affairs and policy operations amid greater government scrutiny of its business⌠Over the last few months, the company has changed its roster of lobbying firms, as well as its Washington policy team, and lost two senior officials who helped build its âinfluence operationâ into one of the largest in the nationâs capital.
Okay. So Google lobbies. Lots of big corporations do. But hereâs the kicker: According to the WSJ, Google had only been spending about $20 million a year to lobby on behalf of its interests; the firms that Google let go earlier this month accounted for about half that amount.
So, bottom line: For between $10-$20 million, Google is able to control Washington bureaucrats and lawmakers to effect policies that are friendly to the company or, in this case, to ignore pressure to take a tougher line with the company for its excessive and obvious targeting of conservative, pro-Trump voices.
For a company that makes billions a year, thatâs pocket change.
In fact, this kind of dominance and Congressâ unwillingness to intervene in Googleâs â and the other social media platformsâ â overt silencing of Right-leaning figures, voices, and âpolitically incorrectâ companies like gun makers has empowered the tech giants to a point where they are no longer feigning fairness and denying they ban and censor.
Theyâre all but openly admitting it now, though by their actions you could argue they are being âvocalâ about it.
Case in point: Following Project Veritasâ explosive revelations this week via real undercover journalism exposing Googleâs blatant anti-Trump, anti-conservative bias and the companyâs efforts, through censorship and search manipulation to âpreventâ POTUS Trumpâs 2020 reelection, YouTube â which is owned by Google â censored the organizationâs video.
This censorship will only get worse
Moreover, another popular video platform, Vimeo, banned Project Veritas as well as freedom-loving, freedom-fighting Natural News, from the platform this week as well.
Thatâs brazen. This comes after Facebook completely deplatformed Natural News, separating the food, health, and liberty site from its 3.1 million followers, and after Project Veritas was all over the conservative, independent media following its Google expose.
âThis is the worst-case scenario for conservatives. Before, we could call them liars and cheats. Now, we have to fight them on an ideological level, and while we have the truth on our side, they have the technology. They have the eyeballs. They control what people see and donât see. And as such, they can no longer be trusted to deliver anything even remotely close to fair and balanced,â writes Michio Hasai at NOQReport.
As evidence, he cites congressional testimony this week by the tech behemoths who, in response to questions from Republicans, essentially admitted they are banning and censoring conservatives for âhateâ speech â the old catchall phrase the Left always uses to justify their unconstitutional, tyrannical treatment of anyone who doesnât agree with them 110 percent.
Heâs right, of course. Big Tech execs have been denying their obvious bias against conservatives even as evidence of it has continued to surface for at least the past two years, via studies, analyses of social media analytics, and whistleblower-insiders who have spilled the beans.
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