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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(137,499 posts)
Thu Mar 6, 2025, 11:03 PM Mar 2025

House Judiciary panel subpoenas Google, YouTube parent company

Source: The Hill

House Judiciary Committee Chair Gym Jordan (R-Ohio) on Thursday subpoenaed Alphabet, the parent company of Google and YouTube, demanding the tech giant turn over its communications with the executive branch.

The panel also requested that Alphabet hand over internal communications about its interactions with the previous administration and third parties working with the executive branch.

“The Committee’s oversight has revealed that YouTube, a subsidiary of Alphabet, was a direct participant in the federal government’s censorship regime,” Jordan wrote in a letter to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai.

Jordan cited a committee report featuring a series of emails between Google and the White House under former President Biden about content moderation in 2021, largely related to COVID-19 misinformation.

Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/house-judiciary-panel-subpoenas-google-203456901.html



When are you going to investigate your team doctor at Ohio State Gym?
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House Judiciary panel subpoenas Google, YouTube parent company (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2025 OP
Jordan is chasing unicorns again. Insisting that what hasn't been proven must therefore exist. Ford_Prefect Mar 2025 #1
Republicans talking about "censorship" is like Nazis talking about bakery ovens. AmericaUnderSiege Mar 2025 #2

Ford_Prefect

(8,667 posts)
1. Jordan is chasing unicorns again. Insisting that what hasn't been proven must therefore exist.
Thu Mar 6, 2025, 11:10 PM
Mar 2025

There never was programmatic censorship of conservatives. They simply can't resist using offensive language, asserting their fantasies as fact, and presuming white privilege at the drop of a pronoun.

 

AmericaUnderSiege

(777 posts)
2. Republicans talking about "censorship" is like Nazis talking about bakery ovens.
Fri Mar 7, 2025, 01:43 AM
Mar 2025

The balls on these bastards.

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