Does the Internet “Censor Conservatives”?

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Does the Internet Censor Conservatives?

From The Propaganda Professor:

Every time you turn around, it seems that Republicans in Congress are holding another hearing on the supposed censorship of (or bias against) conservatives by big tech giants like Google, Facebook and Twitter. And lawsuits. Lordy, the “conservatives” who have been known to bemoan what a litigious society America has become will sue at the drop of a tin hat whenever they have a chance to advance their persecution complex and raise a few bucks from their base in the process.

In August, PragerU took Google to court (again) for restricting some of its videos on YouTube, thereby conclusively proving, in Prager’s eyes, “censorship of conservatives”. This is, Dennis Prager assures us with his typical combination of hyperbole and self-aggrandizing theatre, “THE single largest threat against free speech today.” Good grief. And not wishing to pass up an opportunity to outdo himself, he even goes full reductio ad Hitlerum:

I promise you, one day you will say, first they came after conservatives, and I said nothing, And then they came after me—and there was no one left to speak up for me.

Did we mention that one of his videos bemoans that comparisons to Nazis diminish the genuine horror over what actual Nazis did?

The layers of irony and hypocrisy are too thick to slice through with a guillotine. For starters, PragerU has more than 2.2 million subscribers and receives over a billion views a year. And wherever you turn online, it’s constantly popping up in your face — the only reason I became so aware of its extensive reach is that it kept cluttering up my Facebook feed, quite uninvited. This is censorship??? I’ll take a dozen orders of censorship on the side, please.

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