On this blog, I’ve been reporting on how big technology companies, many of them based in very liberal Silicon Valley, love to censor anything that makes the Democrat party look bad. Well, the Democrat party has embraced the transgender agenda pretty hard, with the “Equality Act”. So, the Silicon Valley left wants to use their power to censor anything that argues against that agenda.
Consider this article from the Daily Signal:
“See, if you want to cut off a leg or an arm, you’re mentally ill, but if you want to cut off healthy breasts or a penis, you’re transgender.”
Those are the words of Dr. Michelle Cretella, a pediatrician with many years’ experience and the executive director of the American College of Pediatricians, in a Daily Signal video published in 2017.
It’s a sentence YouTube will not allow the doctor to say about children and gender identity issues.
The Daily Signal recently learned that our video of Cretella had been removed from YouTube. In its place, YouTube displayed this message: “This video has been removed for violating YouTube’s policy on hate speech.”
Over the past few months, The Daily Signal worked with YouTube to try to reach a resolution. Ultimately, we were told the only way we could get the video back on YouTube was to delete the previously mentioned sentence.
In other words, we had two choices: censor the doctor’s words or have no video on the world’s biggest video platform.
The parent company of YouTube is Google. Which is why I use the DuckDuckGo search engine.
The Federalist notes:
This is not the first time this has happened to a conservative news outlet or conservative organization. In June, YouTube demonetized comedian Steven Crowder after a pressure campaign by a gay Vox writer. In 2016, YouTube restricted educational videos from the conservative, nonprofit educational organization PragerU. The videos in question included a wide range of subjects from national security and foreign policy, to the Second Amendment and abortion. PragerU ended up suing the Google-owned YouTube for unlawful censorship and free speech discrimination.
This is not a one time occurrence, but a consistent attempt to de-platform conservatives and conservative thought from the largest video platform in the world.
The reason I’m concerned about this is because I keep seeing examples of transgender activists expressing hostility to free speech, and religious liberty. I hope that people are seeing what gay rights really means in practice, and will be appropriately engaged during the 2020 election campaign. There are many ways to help. You can make donations. You can get out the vote. You can put up a yard sign. You can share articles on facts and evidence that are critical of Democrat positions.
If it’s too sensitive for you to argue about social issues like abortion and LGBT activism, then you can share articles critical of socialist policies – about how they require raising taxes, and don’t work. If you want to share articles and evidence about social and moral issues, then it might be a good idea to get yourself an alias, because the left does come after people who disagree with them.
Think about it. We are dealing with people who use power to censor ideas that they disagree with. They don’t want to debate those who disagree, they want to censor them. And if we’ve learned anything about the secular left from history, it’s that if they fail to stop undesired views with censorship, then they resort to violence. The time to stop it is during the election. And the way to stop it is by getting informed, and winning arguments with reason and evidence. Something the left, e.g. – Google and YouTube, is not capable of doing.
WINTERY KNIGHT 
This is how its going to be until the courts get populated with judges who are interested in upholding the law rather than pushing an agenda. Regardless of what one thinks about “transgenderism” there is absolutely no valid reason for Google or any other company being given a free pass in violating free speech and preventing people from speaking it on their public platform. If conservative leadership had any spine they would immediately recognize Google et al for what they are: Left wing propaganda machines, and shut them down entirely. Android is open source, it will survive, and they could easily hand temporary control over to another tech company to keep critical services up and running until something more suitable can be done. I don’t like encouraging government intervention, but Google has become so large that its going to take that kind of effort to put them down, and they definitely need to go down.
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Well, the good news is that since Trump was elected he has been packing the courts from top to bottom with constitutional conservatIves, which is bound to have a major, good influence on the direction this country takes, even years after Trump has left office. Let’s hope that the current Supreme Court rules against these idiotic hate-speech laws online, that are being used to violate the people’s First Amendment rights, just for disagreeing with the current liberal party line.
And no, I don’t think the government should shut down Google, for that would violate THEIR rights. Fair’s fair.
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Typically I would say you are correct, however I must reiterate that Google has gone far beyond the definition of a business and has become a political machine. Not only do they have and exhibit control over what people see and hear they have access to millions of peoples personal information as well as information of political importance and undoubtedly political secrecy. To think that Google has not placed back doors into the accounts or devices of important political figures is silly, and it was likely done at the behest of the enemies of America, within and without. I would even go as far as to say that, at this point, along with Facebook, they are active agents AGAINST the interests of America, and the government has full rights to stop them. Yes we have freedom of speech, but this is not speech we are talking about, this is also action directly against the Constitution and an internal attempt to destabilize the government in hopes to replace it with socialism/communism.
This is not the mom and pop shop down the road saying they don’t like the president, or even Google saying they HATE the president. This is a massive corporation with tentacles in almost every piece of data across the internet actively working against the U.S. Big difference.
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Blatant censorship!
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