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> Time to charge tech CEOs with subversion and treason.
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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.”

Other things Big Tech didn’t want Americans to know about 
Johnson included his interview about vaccine mandates and “the 
FDA’s rushed approval of the vaccination for children” with 
Wisconsin talk show host Dan O’Donnell and his speech at the 
Milwaukee Press Club newsmaker luncheon about how “ivermectin 
and hydroxychloroquine are both safe and effective drugs.” 
YouTube didn’t just penalize Johnson for those comments but also 
extended its suspensions to O’Donnell, who posted the relevant 
interview on his website.

YouTube’s interference with election outcomes by manipulating 
public opinion is not lost on Americans searching for answers 
about Covid and election integrity, nor on Johnson. In fact, his 
letter shows how Big Tech censorship is consistently brandished 
against facts that might lead people to vote for Republicans, 
and not against facts that would lead to voting for Democrats. 
It’s likely not a coincidence that a major lawsuit recently 
exposed the Democrat-run White House has been secretly telling 
companies including Twitter, Google, and Facebook specific 
information to hide from Americans.

That’s why, during a recent HSGAC hearing, Johnson asked why 
Democrats’ false statements were never flagged as 
“misinformation.” President Joe Biden has repeatedly lied that 
you can’t get the virus, be hospitalized, or die from Covid if 
you’re vaccinated but he’s faced no punishment from social media 
moderators. Big Tech execs from YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, and 
Facebook, however, never “even attempted to answer” acknowledge 
Johnson’s inquiry.

“Who do you think you are to censor information from eminently 
qualified doctors who had the courage and compassion to treat 
Covid patients?” Johnson asked during the hearing. “You guys 
bear a fair amount of responsibility for hundreds of thousands 
of people not being treated — and I would say probably dying, 
that didn’t have to die. Hope you’re proud of yourselves.”

Senator Ron Johnson
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President Biden lied to the American public about the 
effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Yesterday I asked big tech execs if they ever removed his false 
statements or labeled it “misinformation.”

Their response: ??????

Corruption at its finest. They should be ashamed.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1570474213407850498

Big Tech’s acts of information suppression against Johnson 
aren’t just concerning, they are deliberate election meddling. 
Controlling what voters can learn about issues of public 
importance and candidates’ stances on them is a way of 
controlling election outcomes.

When voters don’t have access to the full story, they can’t make 
an informed choice. They believe they are choosing, but if Big 
Tech controls what messages people can read, voters’ choices are 
predetermined by these huge companies that obey a Democrat-
controlled White House and federal bureaucracy.

Johnson’s reelection bid this November is reportedly tight. No 
one knows how tight it would be if Big Tech wasn’t controlling 
what Wisconsin voters are allowed to learn about his record — 
and his opponent. And that’s a huge problem.

https://thefederalist.com/2022/09/26/wisconsin-senator-documents-
big-tech-rigging-the-2022-election-against-republicans/

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