Don’t buy the conservative censorship complex’s Big Tech narrative

Conservative commentator Dennis Prager, for instance, testified during Tuesday’s hearing before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee about Big Tech’s alleged bias. His complaints center around YouTube’s decision to not air approximately 20% of his PragerU videos for users in restricted viewing mode.

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Considering that the channel deals with sensitive subjects such as the Holocaust, it’s hard to see why, for instance, computer users at elementary schools, churches, public libraries, and the like should be allowed to stumble upon his often controversial videos. Indeed, this seems to fly in the face of the very conservative values of individual autonomy, family values, and community decision-making that conservatives like Prager value. Indeed, it’s hard to take cries of “censorship” too seriously from a man whose YouTube channel still receives millions of views on almost every video.

But, of course, there’s a clear reason why Prager would cry wolf: There’s currency in victimhood. Complaining conservatives have only boosted their profiles (and thus their profits) by crying censorship and are sometimes ironically making the same calls to break up Big Tech as their political foes such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts.

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