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• @palmerluckey Palmer Luckey on x

  YouTube has deleted every comment I ever made about the Wumao (五毛), an internet propaganda division of the Chinese Communist Party. Who at Google decided to censor American comments on American videos hosted in America by an American platform that is already banned in China?

• @tedcruz Ted Cruz on x

  This is very disturbing. Why is Google/YouTube censoring Americans on behalf of the CCP? This is WRONG & Big Tech is drunk with power. The Sherman Act prohibits abusing monopoly power. DOJ needs to stop this NOW. https://twitter.com/...

• @verge @verge on x

  YouTube confirms it's accidentally been deleting comments containing two phrases that insult China's Communist Party https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @wakeupin2020 @wakeupin2020 on x

  YouTube has claiming “error” anytimes since last year deleting, reducing exposure and advertisement on anti-#CCP videos on YouTube. That explanation can't stop people suspecting YouTube and Google has been penetrated by CCP. Call for a parliamentary investigation on censorship. h…

• @jjvincent James Vincent on x

  YouTube now says it's begun fixing this issue, but that it's still investigating the root cause. In our tests the two original phrases are no longer automatically deleted. It's possible though that other terms are still affected https://www.theverge.com/...

• @marshablackburn Sen. Marsha Blackburn on x

  .@Google is acting like the #CCP is their preferred government partner. https://www.theverge.com/...

• @scrowder Steven Crowder on x

  Sure... “accidentally”! https://twitter.com/...