“I’d like to thank YouTube for making our point,” writes Matt Taibbi at his TK News site. The point being the one-sided nature of “Democrats’ successful push for censorship on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube” of 2020 election denial — since Dems’ the “own leaders engage in the same behavior.”
That is: “How can declaring the 2020 election illegitimate be prohibited if saying the same thing about 2016 was and is encouraged?”
YouTube made the point by demonetizing (forbidding ad revenue for) Matt Orfalea’s TKNews video flagging Democrats’ extensive 2016 denial.
The video is a pure fact — that is, it simply documents that denial with clips of “Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Karine Jean-Pierre, Adam Schiff, Rob Reiner, Tom Arnold, and Chris Hayes, among many others” pushing the fantasy that “Russia hacked the election”, i.e. faked vote totals to rob Hillary of her victory.
YouTube says it’s “not suitable for all advertisers,” which is true of a lot of non-suppressed content. The real issue is simply that it’s embarrassing, as it shows how Democrats set the precedent for denying a new president’s legitimacy. (A follow-up video makes the 2016-2020 parallels even more clear.)
Dems’ denial then was “exactly the kind of behavior we’re now being told is so dangerous that it requires both censorship and official investigation,” Taibbi (a proud lefty!) rightly notes; though Donald Trump’s “brand of election denial was dumber and less likely to succeed than that of his opponents. Orfalea’s video shows the double standard. We either censor and condemn election denial, or we don’t. You can’t have it both ways, but they sure are trying.”
