Google and its subsidiary YouTube are just arms of the government, so they should be held to the First Amendment standard. From Tyler Durden at zerohedge.com:
Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has filed a lawsuit against Google and YouTube, who he claims are ‘state actors’ who have violated his free speech.
Kennedy, who’s campaigning against President Joe Biden for the Democratic party nomination said in a 27-page complaint that the sites caved to pressure from the Biden administration, and that his videos about Covid vaccines were being censored through “overt and covert” means.
“Under these circumstances, YouTube is a state actor and it violated Mr Kennedy’s First Amendment rights by engaging in viewpoint discrimination,” reads the filing. “This complaint concerns the freedom of speech and the extraordinary steps the United States government has taken under the leadership of Joe Biden to silence people it does not want Americans to hear.”
The lawsuit points to several instances of the sites removing Kennedy’s speeches and interviews, including one with Joe Rogan, and a March speech he gave to the New Hampshire Institute of Politics.
“Unlike other tech companies — notably Facebook and Instagram (both owned by Facebook parent Meta) and Twitter (now owned by Elon Musk) — YouTube has not treated Mr Kennedy differently now that he is a political candidate,” the suit states.
Don’t forget Project Bluebird redux or the Twit hive.
What a gift it is to think for yourself and not want any part of the borg.