Has she read the Constitution? The 1st Amendment? This doesn’t violate the letter of the 1st, but, it sure violates the spirit with a sitting, elected federal representative pulling this
Congresswoman calls on YouTube to stop promoting climate misinformation
Congresswoman Kathy Castor (D-Florida) is calling on YouTube to stop including climate change misinformation in its recommendation algorithm and to demonetize videos that deny climate change. In a letter addressed to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Castor references a report by Avaaz, which claims that YouTube is sending millions of users to climate change misinformation videos every day.
Castor, chair of the US House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, asks that YouTube label climate-related misinformation as “borderline content.” She notes that just last year, YouTube stopped running ads along anti-vaccine content and could take a similar approach in this case. Castor is also asking that YouTube take steps to “correct the record” for the millions of viewers exposed to climate misinformation on the platform. (snip)
According to the report Castor referenced, for the search term “global warming,” 16 percent of the top 100 related videos under the up-next feature had climate disinformation, and the climate misinformation videos Avaaz reviewed had over 21 million views collectively. Avaaz says some of the largest household brands, including Samsung, L’Oréal and Warner Bros, as well as Greenpeace International, Save the Children and the World Wildlife Fund, have ads running on climate misinformation videos. It’s unclear if those companies are aware of this, or if they’ll pull their ads as a result, as we’ve seen companies do in the past.
She calls them misinformation, others call them science (though, let’s be honest, some are really out there, just like Warmist stuff). But, it doesn’t matter, because it’s not her job to tell Youtube to censor videos like this, nor to recommend in a roundabout way that companies pull their ads. If she was a Republican calling for Warmist propaganda to be removed, I’d say the same thing: it is inappropriate. Elected officials should not be doing this. It’s one thing if it was jihadi propaganda calling for violence. This is not that. Let people watch the videos and make their own choices.
Is anyone surprised that a Democrat is attempting this type of Progressive (nice Fascism) move? The letter is way worse than portrayed in the article. The letter is signed by 14 members of the so-called Select Committee On The Climate Crisis (scam).
See, they aren’t simply calling for the removal of “disinformation”, but all “denial” videos. Any that is involved in Wrongthing, that doesn’t obey the rules of the Cult of Climastrology, should be removed per this committee. Remove any monetization.
This is censorship when the government is involved. You want to impeach someone? Impeach these folks for violating the spirit of the 1st Amendment.
