Accounts of Thousands of Americans Censored for Political Free Speech
As online platforms…grappled with these decisions, the Administration’s officials, including President Biden, created a political atmosphere that sought to influence the actions of platforms based on their concerns regarding misinformation.”
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if the company terminated their channels for repeated violations of COVID-19 and elections integrity policies that are no longer in effect,” a lawyer representing Google wrote to Jordan.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.
Google’s video platform said it “values conservative voices on its platform” and admitted that the creators “have extensive reach and play an important role in civic discourse.”
Google then admitted that the Biden administration pressured the big tech company to remove alleged misinformation relating to the pandemic.
“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,” the lawyer wrote to Jordan.
The lawyer said that the President Joe Biden and his officials “created a political atmosphere that sought to influence the actions of platforms based on their concerns regarding misinformation.”
Google said that Jordan and the Judiciary Committee have “taken important steps to highlight that onerous obligations under laws such as the Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act may stifle innovation and restrict access to information.”
Jordan had recently told Breitbart News that the European Union and the United Kingdom are acting “exactly” like the Biden administration in pushing big tech platforms to censor free speech.
Jordan wrote on X, “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.”
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Breaking: YouTube Capitulates! Will Allow Reinstatement of Accounts Banned For Election and Covid-19 Violations
Massive victory for President Trump’s efforts to reign in the censorship regime
Representative Jim Jordan took to X today to announce that Google has capitulated on its draconian censorship ‘rules’ over the past several years and has vowed to reinstate previously banned accounts on the YouTube platform.
Rep. Jordan wrote, “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.”
In follow up posts to X, Rep. Jordan reveals some of the specific details. For example, YouTube “admits the Biden administration censorship pressure was ‘unacceptable and wrong’” and “confirms that the Biden administration wanted Americans censored for speech that did not violate YouTube’s policies.”
You can read the full letter addressed to Rep. Jordan here.
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.
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— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) September 23, 2025
YouTube states:
“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.”
“As online platforms…grappled with these decisions, the Administration’s officials, including President Biden, created a political atmosphere that sought to influence the actions of platforms based on their concerns regarding misinformation.”
“It is unacceptable and wrong when any government, including the Biden Administration, attempt to dictate how the Company moderates content, and the Company has consistently fought against those efforts on First Amendment grounds.”
YouTube went on to vow that “no matter the political atmosphere” they will “continue to enable free expression on its platform” while claiming they “expanded its approach to educational, documentary, scientific, and artistic content on its platform.”
In doing so, they acknowledge that they “terminated channels for violating its Community Guidelines on election integrity content through 2023 and COVID-19 content through 2024” and will “provide an opportunity for all creators to rejoin the platform if the Company terminated their channels for repeated violations of COVID-19 and election integrity policies that are no longer in effect.”
On his first day in office, President Trump Executive Order 14149, “Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship.” The EO directed all federal agencies to refrain from and correct any past actions involving unconstitutional censorship of Americans while directing the Attorney General to investigate any federal censorship over the past four years.
Recently President Trump and administration officials have raised concerns over Section 230, a provision in the Communications Decency Act of 1996 that shields online platforms from liability based on content created by third party users. With calls focused on amending this section, social media platforms could potentially face lawsuits over defamation and harmful and/or illegal material posted to their platforms. This would likely lead to much stricter censorship, rather than freedom of speech.
Perhaps those insinuations were the proverbial ‘shot over the bow’ to reign in a one-sided provision that affords private companies freedom from liability while still allowing them complete control over moderation over free, constitutional speech.
Either way, this is a massive victory for President Trump’s efforts to reign in the censorship regime.
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NEW: Tech Giants Cave, Admit To Systematic Censorship Of Right-Wing Content
Tech companies long accused of censorship by conservatives began to cave on Tuesday, with Google offering to reinstate the accounts of individuals banned during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Many of the accounts posted content related to the pandemic and vaccines, according to U.S. House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH), who stated that he has reached an agreement that will restore freedom of speech to dissidents who were silenced under the Biden administration.
The new policy by Google and its parent company, Alphabet, has the potential to affect members of the Trump administration who previously hosted their own podcasts and other online programs, including FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, House counterterrorism chief Sebastian Gorka, and “War Room” podcast host Steve Bannon, all of whom were banned for posting pandemic or election-related content.
“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,” the lawyer representing Google wrote to Fox News.
Bongino, a former U.S. Secret Service agent, operated his show on both Rumble and YouTube but ended it when he joined the administration. He attributed a decline in his viewership to a permanent ban he received from YouTube, which is owned by Google. A company spokesperson at the time accused Bongino of spreading false information about COVID-19 and its origins.
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