{"id":1070,"date":"2021-02-22T13:48:28","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T13:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2021-02-22T13:52:23","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T13:52:23","slug":"youtube-must-be-regulated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2021\/02\/22\/youtube-must-be-regulated\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube must be regulated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was in a weird mood and spent some time this weekend looking up goofy things on YouTube. Alien abductions. Area 54 stuff. &#8220;America&#8217;s secret book.&#8221; Flat-Earth videos. <\/p>\n<p>You can find every kind of crackpot nonsense you like on YouTube &#8212; unless is offends Democrats or the approved liberal narrative. Then it can&#8217;t be spoken. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/youtube-takes-down-video-of-testimony-given-during-ohio-house-session_3704812.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube Takes Down Ohio Legislative Testimony, Cites Misinformation<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>These people have to go. We can&#8217;t allow such crass manipulation to continue. <\/p>\n<p>I know some people will say the First Amendment only protects us against government censorship, and private companies can do what they like. That is a short-sighted and, in my opinion, indefensible response to the rampant bias we see on all the tech platforms. <\/p>\n<p>They have become the dominant source of information, and we can&#8217;t allow that to be corrupted the way it has been. Free speech has to mean more than &#8220;the government can&#8217;t censor your speech.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in a weird mood and spent some time this weekend looking up goofy things on YouTube. Alien abductions. Area 54 stuff. &#8220;America&#8217;s secret book.&#8221; Flat-Earth videos. You can find every kind of crackpot nonsense you like on YouTube &#8212; unless is offends Democrats or the approved liberal narrative. Then it can&#8217;t be spoken. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2021\/02\/22\/youtube-must-be-regulated\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;YouTube must be regulated&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1073,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions\/1073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}