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Finally A Comeuppance

Finally a comeuppance as a  government has the guts to respond to censorship by the likes of Google, Facebook, YouTube, etc. Not surprising the government that I am referring to is not in this country. The government with some fortitude is in Europe.

From the Washington Examiner:

YouTube was fined 100,000 euros (around $118,115) over the weekend in a German court for removing a video of a coronavirus lockdown protest in Switzerland.

After the Dresden Higher Regional Court in Germany ordered an injunction directing YouTube to restore the video in April 2020, the video platform ignored the ruling for nearly a month before complying on May 14, a “deliberate and serious violation,” the court found, according to free speech group Reclaim the Net. YouTube told the court the video needed to be removed because it violated the company’s “medical misinformation policy,” which YouTube has expanded since the outset of the pandemic to remove content that includes claims about COVID-19 vaccinations that contradict health authorities’ guidance. The court reportedly rejected this argument.

Sunday’s fine “appears to be the highest on record in Germany,” the group added.

The notion that Big Tech platforms have been censoring dissenting voices has made headlines since former President Donald Trump was deplatformed following the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill attack. Twitter, Facebook, and others said Trump’s words and actions preceding the attack incited violence and warranted removal.

My response to Trump’s suit … “Go DJT.”

I look forward to the day when the Facebooks of the world get their comeuppance in the USA. Certainly a fine of $100,000 is peanuts for YouTube. I cannot wait until the courts decide that censorship by the all-knowing  on these platforms is just wrong. In the future I hope that they are fined millions here in the US.

7/20/21

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