Greenwald: How Authoritarian Do You Have To Be To Support Google Censoring Political Speech? | Video | RealClearPolitics
GLENN GREENWALD: So you have to remember that Google, which owns YouTube, is probably the single most powerful corporation in the world in terms of control over our data and speech and their wealth. Do we want this mega-corporation policing our discourse and determining what can and can’t be said on the internet?
The reality is, Howie, there are mainstream news outlets like The Guardian which reported on a study that said that for boys from 13-18, the risk of a bad outcome from the vaccine is greater than the risk that if they got Covid they would actually suffer any serious illness.
So the idea that you can’t debate these things without Google intervening and censoring you off the internet is compete madness. How authoritarian do you need be to want a corporation like Google telling us what we can and can’t say, not just on Covid but many political debates. The most ironic part of all is that it is journalists, who are supposed to defend free discourse and free inquiry, leading the way not just cheering Google but demanding more and more censorship.