by Bruna Frascolla, Strategic Culture:
The U.S. is marching toward anarcho-capitalism, in which the owners of private entities censor whatever they want, or release whatever they want.
This time, it was Alphabet, the mega-corporation that owns Google, that revealed the Biden administration’s pressure for censorship. The company joins the chorus led by Elon Musk, who launched Twitter Files when he purchased Twitter, and continued by Mark Zuckerberg, who had already complained about pressure for censorship last year. With a more institutional profile, the company provided this information to Congress through its attorney, Daniel Donovan.
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Thus, we have the trio of American Big Tech companies linked to mass communication expressing their disagreement with government censorship in the U.S.: Elon Musk owns X (Twitter’s official name) and a private satellite network that provides internet; Zuckerberg owns Facebook and Instagram; Alphabet owns Google, which is or owns almost everything on the internet: it started as a search engine, but now also includes email, a web browser, a teaching platform used by public institutions, file clouds, satellite maps, the most popular mobile operating system, and so on. Important to this case is YouTube, purchased by Google in 2006, which is now watched on TV sets even by the elderly and competes with TV channels.
If the flagship of Twitter Files was the censorship of political topics during the presidential election, it’s worth remembering that the allegations included the censorship of opinions related to the pandemic: COVID, vaccines, and lockdowns. This censorship was the subject of Zuckerberg’s complaint, and it is also the subject of Alphabet’s new statement. According to the new information, the White House was pushing to remove content expressing skepticism about the so-called vaccines quickly produced by the pharmaceutical industry. Here are the words of Alphabet’s attorney: “Senior Biden Administration officials, including White House officials, conducted repeated and sustained outreach to Alphabet and pressed the Company regarding certain user-generated content related to the COVID-19 pandemic that did not violate its policies. While the Company continued to develop and enforce its policies independently, Biden Administration officials continued to press the Company to remove non-violative user-generated content.”
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