Legal Insurrection by Ben Smith 9/23/2025
“For years, Big Tech denied what conservatives knew all along, that Biden’s White House strong-armed platforms into silencing dissent.”In a bombshell development, House Judiciary Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) announced Tuesday that Google has admitted to censoring Americans under pressure from the Biden administration, and is now promising to restore accounts banned for political speech.
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🚨BREAKING: Due to our oversight efforts, GOOGLE commits to offer ALL creators previously kicked off YouTube due to political speech violations to return to the platform.
BUT THAT’S NOT ALL.
The letter from Google’s lawyers, sent to the House Judiciary Committee and published by Jordan, acknowledges that the company caved to government demands. Google explicitly conceded that the censorship pressure from Biden officials was “unacceptable and wrong”:
“Senior Biden Administration officials, including White House officials, communicated certain urgent concerns to Alphabet and pressed the Company to remove and suppress certain user-generated content related to the COVID-19 pandemic that did not violate its policies. While the Company continued to develop and enforce its policies independently, Biden Administration officials continued to press the Company to remove user-generated content. At times, officials, including Alphabet, grappled with the concern that, by acquiescing to requests from the Biden Administration, it might appear to be influenced by the views of government officials. Alphabet concluded that the pressure was unacceptable and wrong when any government, including the Biden Administration, sought to dictate how the Company moderates content, and the Company has consistently fought against those efforts on First Amendment grounds.”
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