Sen. Johnson accuses Big Tech of rigging election by censoring

 Jordan Boyd:

Fed up with the repeated censorship of his work, Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson penned a letter to YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki demanding the Big Tech company answer for its deliberate attempts to silence him online.

For more than a year, YouTube censors have suppressed, banned, and limited content from Johnson and his team. These attempts to limit Johnson’s reach aren’t just censorship, they are blatant meddling in Johnson’s reelection chances.

Big Tech’s efforts to subdue Johnson’s rigorous commitment to exposing the truth are joined by corporate media and Democrats, both of which are working to ensure that the Wisconsin Republican is replaced by a radical Democrat this fall.

Knowledge about Johnson’s work in the Senate is key to his reelection chances but if Big Tech’s track record suggests anything, there’s nothing stopping companies like YouTube from privately limiting key information voters need to formulate an opinion about Johnson and his opponent.

As Johnson documents in his letter, Big Tech was more than willing to publicly blacklist the senator over discussions about Covid-19, early treatments, the jab, and the 2020 election.

“YouTube has displayed a troubling track record of censoring a sitting United States Senator, the proceedings of the United States Senate, journalists that interview me, and the display of data that is entirely generated from U.S. government health agencies,” Johnson explained. He demanded that Google-owned YouTube cough up documents by Oct. 5 related to the company’s long history of hiding Johnson’s work from the public.

At the behest of Democrat-controlled federal agencies, YouTube wielded its censorship power against Johnson during crucial moments. That included banning him from uploading new content for days at a time.

In January 2021, YouTube denied Americans the right to explore questions about early Covid-19 treatments by removing footage of a U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing from the senator’s YouTube page. Days later, YouTube took down the same video, which garnered nearly 8 million views, from a Fox News YouTube channel.

YouTube justified the censorship to The Federalist by claiming the video was “removed for violating our COVID-19 misinformation policy,” something the company admitted it developed to comply with demands from unelected government employees.

In October 2021, YouTube removed yet another HSGAC hearing from Johnson’s page. That time, Johnson says, YouTube claimed the clip featuring a congressional discussion on public record about election integrity and laws “alleges widespread fraud or errors that changed the outcome of the 2020 US Presidential Election.”

“The video was uploaded on December 20, 2020, meaning YouTube waited nearly a year to remove the video,” Johnson noted in his letter.

Just one month later, YouTube personalized its vendetta by suspending Johnson’s account over a Covid-19 roundtable he hosted. In it, several highly credentialed, world-recognized medical experts “discussed the importance of natural immunity, heard stories on the disastrous consequences of vaccine mandates, highlighted the lack of transparency from the federal health agencies, and gave a voice to the vaccine injured.”
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Other reports have indicated that Biden administration officials urged big tech to censor data about Covid.  That censorship is looking like a mistake now.  Sen. Johnson also questioned tech executives about their failure to censor false and misleading information uttered by President Biden on the efficacy of vaccines.  It seems pretty clear there is an anti-Republican bias at many big tech firms that results in unfair treatment and tech's own brand of "misinformation."