Censorship: Twitter Hauled In for Pro-Biden Anti-Trump, YouTube Bans Coronavirus, QAnon, PizzaGate

[Karl]

a _ton_ of people have social network censorship.  please share if
cases like these are ever resolved in favor of the complaint, so that
others can use the precedent.

On 10/15/20, grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com> wrote:
> https://www.wsj.com/articles/senate-to-subpoena-twitter-ceo-over-blocking-of-new-york-post-articles-on-bidens-11602777128
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> The Senate Judiciary Committee plans to issue a subpoena on Tuesday to
> Twitter Chief Executive Jack Dorsey after the social-media company
> blocked a pair of New York Post articles that made new allegations
> about Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, which his campaign
> has denied. From a report: The subpoena would require the Twitter
> executive to testify on Oct. 23 before the committee, according to the
> Republicans who announced the hearing. GOP lawmakers are singling out
> Twitter because it prevented users from posting links to the articles,
> which the Post said were based on email exchanges with Hunter Biden,
> the Democratic candidate's son, provided by allies of President Trump.
> Those people in turn said they received them from a computer-repair
> person who found them on a laptop, according to the Post.
> "This is election interference, and we are 19 days out from an
> election," Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas), a committee member who discussed
> the subpoena with Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham
> (R., S.C.), told reporters. "Never before have we seen active
> censorship of a major press publication with serious allegations of
> corruption of one of the two candidates for president."
>
>
> https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/youtube-bans-qanon-other-conspiracy-content-targets-individuals-n1243525
>
> YouTube said Thursday that it would no longer allow content that
> targets individuals and groups with conspiracy theories, specifically
> QAnon and its antecedent, "pizzagate." From a report: "Today, we are
> taking another step in our efforts to curb hate and harassment by
> removing more conspiracy theory content used to justify real-world
> violence," the company announced on its blog. The new rules, an
> expansion of YouTube's existing hate and harassment policies, will
> prohibit content that "threatens or harrasses someone by suggesting
> they are complicit in one of these harmful conspiracies, such as QAnon
> or Pizzagate," the post read. YouTube said it would be enforcing the
> updated policy immediately and plans to "ramp up in the weeks to
> come."
>
>
> https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-youtube-idUSKBN26Z1VD
>
> YouTube said this week it would remove videos from YouTube containing
> misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines, expanding its current rules
> against falsehoods and conspiracy theories about the pandemic. From a
> report: The video platform said it would now ban any content with
> claims about COVID-19 vaccines that contradict consensus from local
> health authorities or the World Health Organization. YouTube said in
> an email that this would include removing claims that the vaccine will
> kill people or cause infertility, or that microchips will be implanted
> in people who receive the vaccine.
>