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Source: Summit News
Appearing on Fox News, Hawley warned "I think it’s really scary to have the federal government of the United States, the White House compiling lists of people, organizations, whatever and going to a private company that by the way is a monopoly – Facebook – and saying you need to censor."
Please go to Summit News for more.
A Henderson County Board of Commissioners meeting from June 16 was removed by the platform, which led members to call an emergency meeting two days later. At the emergency meeting, commissioners ordered their staffers to find other platforms that can host their meetings without being censored, as well as find alternatives to all Google products. That would include nearly $400,000 earmarked for Google Chromebooks for the county's public schools, The Epoch Times added.
"We aren't going to buy Google products whenever we have a choice," Board of Commissioner Chairman William Lapsley told The Epoch Times.
During the public commentary period at the June 16 meeting, a number of people asked commissioners not to spend taxpayer money to help the state's Democratic governor, Roy Cooper, pay for COVID-19 vaccine incentives. They include for separate $1 million cash drawings, $25 gift cash cards, and funding for billboards and other signage. In fact, those incentives are not funded locally by taxpayers but rather by federal taxpayers; the money comes from the $1.9 trillion ‘relief’ measure Democrats passed in March.
Citizens who want to speak have three minutes to address their concerns to the commissioners, Lapsley said, "as long as they keep it civil."
But that's not a direct dialogue with commissioners themselves, he stressed.
"It's just an opportunity for anybody to tell the commissioners what's on their mind," Lapsley explained.
For a number of years, the county commission staff has uploaded video of meetings to YouTube where they would remain for 90 days.
"We posted the video as we normally do, and within about two hours we got an email from YouTube telling us that the video has been taken down because of misinformation," Lapsley said.
That left commissioners confused, so staff appealed the decision to YouTube and within an hour heard back from the platform’s editorial staff informing them the video would remain offline.
But–why?
In a statement to The Epoch Times, YouTube noted: "Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, we established clear policies to prevent the spread of misinformation that could lead to real-world harm. While we welcome open debate and discussion about the COVID-19 vaccines on our platform, we don't allow content that includes claims the vaccines have killed thousands of people, and as such we removed a video from the Henderson County Board of Commissioners' channel."
None of the 12 citizens who spoke to commissioners at the June 16 meeting said anything about COVID vaccines killing thousands of people. Rather, each of the 12 spoke out against COVID jab programs "targeting massive groups of people" based on what they believe are "suppressed facts."
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Senator Hawley: Big Tech "Acting Like Arms Of The Government"; "It's Scary Stuff
"It really is censorship."
16 July, 2021 | Steve Watson
Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley warned Thursday that big tech is "acting like arms of the government" after the White House admitted that it is asking Facebook to comply with censoring anyone who posts content it deems to be "misinformation".
Here's the backstory:
🚨🚨: Jen Psaki says the Biden administration is actively flagging what they deem "disinformation" about the pandemic to Facebook for censoring.
— John Cooper (@thejcoop) July 15, 2021
What could go wrong?? pic.twitter.com/THz85cqi3R
Tucker Carlson discusses the Biden admin teaming up with Facebook to censor “misinformation.” pic.twitter.com/XLyKjgqyTd
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) July 16, 2021
The Biden administration is telling Facebook which posts it regards as "problematic" so that Facebook can remove them.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 15, 2021
This is the union of corporate and state power -- one of the classic hallmarks of fascism -- that the people who spent 5 years babbling about fascism support. https://t.co/U2Ee3DgXJe
Appearing on Fox News, Hawley warned "I think it’s really scary to have the federal government of the United States, the White House compiling lists of people, organizations, whatever and going to a private company that by the way is a monopoly – Facebook – and saying you need to censor."
Please go to Summit News for more.
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Source: Vaccine.News
YouTube is now censoring government meetings that it doesn’t want the public to see… is Big Tech now dictating what governments are allowed to say?
07/16/2021 / By JD Heyes
Just to show, again, how wealthy, powerful, and out of control the major social media platforms have gotten, YouTube has now assumed the right to censor — yes, censor — city council meetings if the speech Nazis who work there don't like what's being said.
A North Carolina county board of commissioners is ripping Google-owned YouTube and pushing back hard legally after the platform took it upon itself to delete one of the board's videos, allegedly for violating its "terms of service" as they pertain to medical 'misinformation.'
A Henderson County Board of Commissioners meeting from June 16 was removed by the platform, which led members to call an emergency meeting two days later. At the emergency meeting, commissioners ordered their staffers to find other platforms that can host their meetings without being censored, as well as find alternatives to all Google products. That would include nearly $400,000 earmarked for Google Chromebooks for the county's public schools, The Epoch Times added.
"We aren't going to buy Google products whenever we have a choice," Board of Commissioner Chairman William Lapsley told The Epoch Times.
During the public commentary period at the June 16 meeting, a number of people asked commissioners not to spend taxpayer money to help the state's Democratic governor, Roy Cooper, pay for COVID-19 vaccine incentives. They include for separate $1 million cash drawings, $25 gift cash cards, and funding for billboards and other signage. In fact, those incentives are not funded locally by taxpayers but rather by federal taxpayers; the money comes from the $1.9 trillion ‘relief’ measure Democrats passed in March.
Citizens who want to speak have three minutes to address their concerns to the commissioners, Lapsley said, "as long as they keep it civil."
But that's not a direct dialogue with commissioners themselves, he stressed.
"It's just an opportunity for anybody to tell the commissioners what's on their mind," Lapsley explained.
For a number of years, the county commission staff has uploaded video of meetings to YouTube where they would remain for 90 days.
"We posted the video as we normally do, and within about two hours we got an email from YouTube telling us that the video has been taken down because of misinformation," Lapsley said.
That left commissioners confused, so staff appealed the decision to YouTube and within an hour heard back from the platform’s editorial staff informing them the video would remain offline.
But–why?
In a statement to The Epoch Times, YouTube noted: "Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, we established clear policies to prevent the spread of misinformation that could lead to real-world harm. While we welcome open debate and discussion about the COVID-19 vaccines on our platform, we don't allow content that includes claims the vaccines have killed thousands of people, and as such we removed a video from the Henderson County Board of Commissioners' channel."
None of the 12 citizens who spoke to commissioners at the June 16 meeting said anything about COVID vaccines killing thousands of people. Rather, each of the 12 spoke out against COVID jab programs "targeting massive groups of people" based on what they believe are "suppressed facts."
Please go to Vaccine.News to read the entire article.
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News update for 19 July 2021:
Related:
There is too much money involved. This will never happen:
Money is also spent on "vaccine hesitancy":
We as Americans, and that means all of us, better start getting politically aggressive and take on these big tech companies and stop acting like hamsters. We are in a war. This isn't a war to kill people. It is an irregular war of information and knowledge. If you are on Instagram all day showing off your self-absorption get lost. You are hopeless. This means contacting the executives of Twitter, Facebook, Google and YouTube and tell them to back off.
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