BACK-TRACKING: Google makes MAJOR ADMISSION on political censorship on YouTube, promises to restore censored accounts

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From Breitbart: Google on Tuesday promised to restore YouTube accounts that have been banned for political speech, admitting that the Biden administration pressured it to censor Americans that did not violate the company’s terms of service, in a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH).

“Reflecting the Company’s commitment to free expression, YouTube will provide an opportunity for all creators to rejoin the platform if the company terminated their channels for repeated violations of COVID-19 and elections integrity policies that are no longer in effect,” a lawyer representing Google wrote to Jordan.

The letter would likely affect pro-Trump political commentators such as White House counterterrorism chief Sebastian Gorka, War Room host Steve Bannon, and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, whom were banned over speech relating to the coronavirus pandemic or election-related content.

YouTube had banned Bongino, who moved to alternative video streaming platform Rumble, over alleging spreading misinformation about masks during the coronavirus pandemic.

According to the House Judiciary, Google has also admitted that the Biden administration pressured them to remove content that was not even in violation of YouTube’s policies.

CLICK HERE to read the “confession” letter.

Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) announced in a series of posts on X:

BREAKING: Due to our oversight efforts, GOOGLE commits to offer ALL creators previously kicked off YouTube due to political speech violations to return to the platform.

BUT THAT’S NOT ALL.

YouTube also:

  • Admits the Biden Admin censorship pressure was “unacceptable and wrong”
  • Confirms that the Biden Admin wanted Americans censored for speech that did not violate YouTube’s policies
  • Details when YouTube began rolling back its censorship policies on political speech after @JudiciaryGOP began its investigation
  • States that public debate should NEVER come at the expense of relying on “authorities”
  • Promises to NEVER use third-party “fact-checkers”
  • Warns that Europe’s censorship laws target AMERICAN companies and threaten AMERICAN speech

During the Biden-Harris years, under White House pressure, YouTube changed its policies to censor political debate on COVID and elections. TODAY, YouTube admits that the censorship pressure from Biden Admin was “unacceptable and wrong.”

Now, to make amends to the American people, and because of our work, YouTube is rolling back its censorship policies on political speech, including topics such as COVID and elections.

What does that mean? Whether you were an established YouTube presence with a massive following like @dbongino or just were starting out to express political views there, YOU will have an opportunity to come back onto the platform if you were censored for engaging in political speech.

This is another victory in the fight against censorship. In Aug 2024, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote the Committee a letter admitting:

1. Biden Admin “pressured” Facebook to censor Americans.
2. Facebook censored Americans.
3. Facebook throttled the Hunter Biden laptop story.

https://x.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1828201780544504064

Even as Meta admitted the Biden-Harris censorship was wrong, others in Big Tech were reluctant to go on the record.

Now Google is acknowledging, for the first time, that it too faced censorship pressure from the Biden White House and that pressure was “unacceptable and wrong.”

But that’s not all. YouTube is making changes to its platform to prevent future censorship. YouTube is committing to the American people that it will NEVER use outside so-called “fact-checkers” to censor speech. No more telling Americans what to believe and not believe.

YouTube also is trying out Community Notes.@elonmusk was ahead of the curve. Meta followed suit. And now YouTube.

And YouTube confirms that Europe is targeting American speech and innovation. Here it admits that European social-media laws place a “disproportionate regulatory burden on American companies.”

YouTube warns that Europe could force companies to remove LAWFUL social-media content and could risk freedom of expression “within and OUTSIDE of the EU.”

That’s right. Europe wants to censor your online speech even if you aren’t in Europe!

Google and YouTube credit @JudiciaryGOP for bringing transparency of and accountability for Big Tech’s censorship. We will continue to hold Big Tech accountable.

Read GOOGLE’s whole letter to the Committee here: https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2025-09-23-letter-to-hjc.pdf

All the above are MASSIVE wins for the American people, the First Amendment, and freedom. We won’t stop fighting to protect free speech.

Dr. Robert Malone reacted to the announcement, writing, “So – the fact that my reputation was allowed to be slandered, that i was not able to defend myself – is all ok. It is in the past, a “new day” – except it isn’t.

“I can’t ever get back the ability to defend myself during this period against those attacks, and those attacks are still used daily by Google on their search engine.

“BTW- I am still permanently banned from Linked-in. I am not alone – but not only was I censored, others were allowed carte-blanche to defame me. Including gangstalking, often paid for by the Foundation for the CDC.”

Sean Davis of The Federalist wrote, “Google owes us all damages for what their censorship cost us. A quick “we’re sorry” now that they’re in trouble isn’t going to cut. Their censorship cost us millions.”

Elon Musk reacted, “Well done!”

Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) wrote, “The radical Biden-Harris regime pressured platforms to silence conservative voices. Chairman @Jim_Jordan and @JudiciaryGOP are fighting to make sure it never happens again.”

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