Why are some congressional Repubs pushing for lower standards governing misinformation?

[Papageorgio]

That's great, but that is anecdotal. I feel similarly. However the current society allows social media to elevate extremist discourse (hate), permeating the political division (loyalty).

That is a price of freedom, it is up to party leaders to dial it down, but neither side seems to know how to do that.

 

[berg80]

THe CDC acted criminally when they worked with big pharma and the NHS to shut down all studies that showed how injurious and deadly the mRNA vaccine was.

Rated too conspiratorial for a serious reply.

 

[Rawley]

YouTube to allow creators banned for Covid-19, election misinformation to apply for reinstatement​

Google-owned YouTube on Tuesday said it will soon allow previously banned accounts to apply for reinstatement, rolling back a policy that had treated violations as permanent.

The change applies to channels removed for posting Covid-19 or election-related misinformation, according to a letter from Alphabet lawyer Daniel Donovan to House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio. Previously, those types of offenses carried lifetime bans.

“Today, YouTube’s Community Guidelines allow for a wider range of content regarding Covid and elections integrity,” Donovan wrote.

YouTube wrote on X that it will be a limited pilot project open to a subset of creators as well as channels that were terminated under policies the company has since retired. YouTube also said its new reinstatement program will launch soon.

Among channels previously banned under those rules were some associated with Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino, former Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. It’s not yet clear whether those channels will be reinstated.

This move follows mounting Republican pressure on tech companies to reverse Biden-era speech policies on vaccine and political misinformation. In March, Rep. Jordan subpoenaed Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, alleging YouTube was a “direct participant in the federal government’s censorship regime.”

In 2021, YouTube said it would remove content that spread misinformation about all approved vaccines.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/23/youtube-creators-banned-covid-election-misinformation-apply-reinstatement.html

Back in 2021 YouTube said.........

YouTube bans high-profile anti-vaccine accounts, says it will block all vaccine misinformation​

Google-owned YouTube banned prominent anti-vaccine accounts in an effort to strengthen its policies on misinformation around vaccines, the company said in a blog post Wednesday. It will also ban misinformation on all vaccines that are confirmed to be safe by the World Health Organization and local health authorities.

Social media companies have said since the beginning of the pandemic that they’re trying to stop the spread of coronavirus misinformation. But falsehoods have continued to run rampant as companies struggle to police the constant flood of posts and uploads to their platforms.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/29/youtube-bans-high-profile-anti-vaccine-accounts.html

It's more than a little paradoxical how trump's FCC chairman attacks the rights of comedians to ridicule Don on national TV while Repub congressmen spend their time cajoling social media platforms to allow more lies and misinformation to be posted without regulation. Then again, maybe it isn't since misinformation is their stock and trade.

Holy shit. Can the irony stick hit you any harder in the head?

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

That is a price of freedom, it is up to party leaders to dial it down, but neither side seems to know how to do that.

Correct.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Rated too conspiratorial for a serious reply.

I know you dont like truth. This is the reply that I expected from you.

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

I know you dont like truth. This is the reply that I expected from you.

Why entertain a conspiracy that doesn't affect us personally? Is it boredom?

 

[Billiejeens]

Sure we do. But calling it lying isn't good enough.

There are idiots who actually believe that Tylenol causes Autism and horse dewormer treats Covid because some idiot on YouTube said so.

No one said either of those things.

 

[Billiejeens]

Do you folks have some sort of filter that blocks factual content misaligned with the right wing narrative so you can't read it?

Writing for a liberal-conservative coalition of six justices, Justice Amy Coney Barrett said that neither the five individuals nor the two states who sued the government had legal standing to be in court at all. She said they presented no proof to back up their claims that the government had pressured social media companies like Twitter and Facebook into restricting their speech. "Unfortunately," she said, the Fifth Circuit court of appeals "relied on factual findings that are "clearly erroneous."

^^^^
Doesn't know what legal standing means

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Why entertain a conspiracy that doesn't affect us personally? Is it boredom?

Its not conspiracy. I've noticed the left label everything is a conspiracy but amazingly it always turns out as fact a few weeks/months later.

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

Its not conspiracy. I've noticed the left label everything is a conspiracy but amazingly it always turns out as fact a few weeks/months later.

That's just your own anecdote, no?

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Not

That's just your own anecdote, no?

Not really. It's is quite amazing though.

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

Not

Not really. It's is quite amazing though.

Not really.

 

[JoeB131]

The Lab theory wasn't a lie.

Yes, it was. Further, it led to hate crimes against Asian Americans.

The fact masks aren't as useful as claimed isn't a lie.

Yet, in Japan, where masks were popular even before Covid, they all masked up and had nowhere near our death rates.

The idea of the 6 foot distancing being not based on really anything isn't a lie.

The fact that the shot doesn't prevent you from spreading COVID isn't a lie.

The bigger question is why your side was so invested in anti-Vax, anti-Mask, Anti-Social distancing?

It was almost like if you did those things, you would be admitting Trump screwed up.

Tell me you are ina cult without telling me you are in a cult.

 

[ThisIsMe]

YouTube to allow creators banned for Covid-19, election misinformation to apply for reinstatement​

Google-owned YouTube on Tuesday said it will soon allow previously banned accounts to apply for reinstatement, rolling back a policy that had treated violations as permanent.

The change applies to channels removed for posting Covid-19 or election-related misinformation, according to a letter from Alphabet lawyer Daniel Donovan to House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio. Previously, those types of offenses carried lifetime bans.

“Today, YouTube’s Community Guidelines allow for a wider range of content regarding Covid and elections integrity,” Donovan wrote.

YouTube wrote on X that it will be a limited pilot project open to a subset of creators as well as channels that were terminated under policies the company has since retired. YouTube also said its new reinstatement program will launch soon.

Among channels previously banned under those rules were some associated with Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino, former Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. It’s not yet clear whether those channels will be reinstated.

This move follows mounting Republican pressure on tech companies to reverse Biden-era speech policies on vaccine and political misinformation. In March, Rep. Jordan subpoenaed Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, alleging YouTube was a “direct participant in the federal government’s censorship regime.”

In 2021, YouTube said it would remove content that spread misinformation about all approved vaccines.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/23/youtube-creators-banned-covid-election-misinformation-apply-reinstatement.html

Back in 2021 YouTube said.........

YouTube bans high-profile anti-vaccine accounts, says it will block all vaccine misinformation​

Google-owned YouTube banned prominent anti-vaccine accounts in an effort to strengthen its policies on misinformation around vaccines, the company said in a blog post Wednesday. It will also ban misinformation on all vaccines that are confirmed to be safe by the World Health Organization and local health authorities.

Social media companies have said since the beginning of the pandemic that they’re trying to stop the spread of coronavirus misinformation. But falsehoods have continued to run rampant as companies struggle to police the constant flood of posts and uploads to their platforms.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/29/youtube-bans-high-profile-anti-vaccine-accounts.html

It's more than a little paradoxical how trump's FCC chairman attacks the rights of comedians to ridicule Don on national TV while Repub congressmen spend their time cajoling social media platforms to allow more lies and misinformation to be posted without regulation. Then again, maybe it isn't since misinformation is their stock and trade.

Considering that these platforms have recently admitted they banned these accounts due to pressure from the biden administration, dont you think its right they restore them?

https://thehill.com/opinion/robbys-radar/5521897-google-admits-biden-pressure/

 

[Dekster]

I have no problem with them reversing course albeit 5 years too late. Now if the same people who blame Biden were to look back objectively, they would also see that Trump was heavily censoring information in 2020 related to COVID and the CDC

 

[martybegan]

I snipe precisely because magaturds avoid accountability. Very little 'far left' here to counter.

All sorts of far left here, you fellow traveler.

 

[martybegan]

Yes, it was. Further, it led to hate crimes against Asian Americans.




Yet, in Japan, where masks were popular even before Covid, they all masked up and had nowhere near our death rates.





The bigger question is why your side was so invested in anti-Vax, anti-Mask, Anti-Social distancing?

It was almost like if you did those things, you would be admitting Trump screwed up.

Tell me you are ina cult without telling me you are in a cult.

No, it hasn't been proven false, hence not a lie.

The Japanese also isolated far more, and I mean really isolated.

Because it was all controlling bullshit once it was found the mortality was mostly restricted to the sick and elderly.

Keeping up the hard lockdown crap slowed mitigation of the virus and slowed healthy people getting it and developing natural immunity.

 

[Couchpotato]

Lab theory is just that…theory
Still unproven

Even if that's true they banned people from social media for even discussing it.

With an unknown deadly airborne virus. Masks and social distancing are the best defense.

Fauci admitted that was total bullshit that they just made up. It was just an arbitrary number. And yet people were banning/censored over it.

No, the fact that the shot doesn’t keep you from getting the virus isn’t a lie.
But spreading rumors that the vaccine is more dangerous than COVID led to hundreds of thousands of deaths…..that is what the wanted to stop

wow just wow. You literally learned nothing from the COVID debacle.

 

[Couchpotato]

Yes, it was. Further, it led to hate crimes against Asian Americans.

The CIA disagrees with you.

Yet, in Japan, where masks were popular even before Covid, they all masked up and had nowhere near our death rates.

Correlation not causation.

What's Japan's obesity rate compared to the US?

The bigger question is why your side was so invested in anti-Vax, anti-Mask, Anti-Social distancing?

Because they dont work?

It was almost like if you did those things, you would be admitting Trump screwed up.

Tell me you are ina cult without telling me you are in a cult.

 

[JoeB131]

No, it hasn't been proven false, hence not a lie.

The Japanese also isolated far more, and I mean really isolated.

No, not really. They have more interaction with China than we have.

Because it was all controlling bullshit once it was found the mortality was mostly restricted to the sick and elderly.

Ah, and now we get to the meat of it... You just don't like the government telling you what to do.

Keeping up the hard lockdown crap slowed mitigation of the virus and slowed healthy people getting it and developing natural immunity.

Bullshit. The resources were overwhelmed as it was. If they hadn't slowed down the spread with lockdowns and mitigations, a lot more people would have died.