by Issues & Insight Editorial Board
Last week, Google admitted to Congress that it served as the Biden administration’s censorship enforcer. Which is bad enough. But then it followed up this admission with a lie.
In a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, the tech colossus said that under pressure from the administration, it silenced voices that were challenging Joe Biden’s COVID-19 policies.
“Senior Biden administration officials, including White House officials, conducted repeated and sustained outreach to Alphabet and pressed the Company regarding certain user-generated content related to the COVID-19 pandemic that did not violate its policies,” it said in a letter to Jordan.
And, as a supposed sign of good faith, Google said it would “provide an opportunity for all creators to rejoin the platform if the Company terminated their channels for repeated violations of COVID-19 and elections integrity policies that are no longer in effect.”
That this admission comes amid the left’s screaming fits about President Donald Trump’s supposed efforts to silence dissent is interesting. But what’s more curious, and more troubling, is the fact that Google continues to violate what it claims to be its “unwavering” commitment to free speech.
In that same letter,…
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