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Jim Jordan Celebrates Google Caving To His Pressure In Letter That Says Caving To Government Pressure Is Wrong


Look, if you want to cut to the chase: the lawyers working for Google and Meta know that the MAGA world is very, very stupid and very, very gullible, and it’s very, very easy to tell them som…

Look, if you want to cut to the chase: the lawyers working for Google and Meta know that the MAGA world is very, very stupid and very, very gullible, and it’s very, very easy to tell them something that they know will be interpreted as a “victory” while actually signaling something very, very different. Now, we can say that the government shouldn’t be in the business of telling private companies anything at all, but that’s a bit rich coming from the MAGA world that spent the last week focused on getting Disney to “moderate” Jimmy Kimmel out of a fucking job with actual threats of punishment if they failed to do so. Indeed, right after this, Google starts groveling about how it’s so, so sorry that YouTube took moderation actions on conspiracy theory and nonsense peddler accounts that Jordan likes and thus will begin to reinstate them.

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