Responding to a subpoena and investigation by the House Judiciary Committee, lawyers for Alphabet — parent of Google and YouTube — informed Chairman Jim Jordan that the company would restore the accounts of content-producing conservatives who had been deplatformed by the video site, after receiving pressure to do so from the Biden administration. Breitbart reported the news based on posts from Jordan on X:
“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if the company terminated their channels for repeated violations of COVID-19 and elections integrity policies that are no longer in effect,” a lawyer representing Google wrote to Jordan.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 (and former podcast host) 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.”
🚨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
🚨 BIG WIN FOR FREEDOM 🚨 pic.twitter.com/6Ld4au2UgF
— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) September 23, 2025
Over the past month-plus Google has been caught (again) in censorship practices related to non-delivery of Republican fundraising emails to Gmail service users, and received a warning from the Federal Trade Commission.
In 2022 NLPC presented a shareholder proposal that sought an itemization of requests the company received from government officials — namely, the Biden administration — to remove content from its online platforms. Here is an excerpt from my presentation at Alphabet’s annual meeting that year:
Our proposal requests a detailed report that itemizes requests from U.S. government officials and agencies, details the nature of each request, and tells what Google’s decision was about the request.
Alphabet’s proxy response is to refer you to its misnamed “Transparency Report,” which tells us nothing, other than to enumerate how many takedown requests they’ve received from various governments around the world.
The only reason we won’t get the kind of report my organization requests is because Alphabet’s majority voters, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, don’t want you to know how much the Biden administration conspires with Google and YouTube to censor users of their platforms.
MSNBC’s newest personality, former White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki, confirmed that in a press conference last year.
She said almost one year ago, “We are in regular touch with these social media platforms, and those engagements typically happen through members of our senior staff, but also members of our COVID-19 team.”
This was after Biden’s Surgeon General said that “tech and social media companies must do more to address” alleged health misinformation.
As we all know now, it was the Biden administration, and agencies like the CDC and NIH that were the dis-informers, by lying to the public about COVID and its origins; by pushing shutdowns despite their destructiveness; by ignoring evidence about the ineffectiveness of masks and the failed vaccines; and by censoring information about COVID that they did not approve of.
“Biden made me do it” is a poor excuse for the Big Tech companies and their legal departments for their aggressive censorship practices — the same goes for corporate lawyers at the big banks like Bank of America who hide behind federal laws about handing over financial data, rather than protect their customers’ private information.
As for what Alphabet/YouTube did to many by canceling them, they now ask how and when they will be made whole. Dr. Robert Malone, who stood up against the CDC and Biden administration narrative on COVID, is one such victim:
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…— Robert W Malone, MD (@RWMaloneMD) September 23, 2025
There will be no repair to the reputations of those that Big Tech destroyed during their days of either 1. cowardly or 2. willful (or both) censorship of their customers and users. Their stain is not erased with this mea culpa.
(Top image depicting Dan Bongino and Steve Bannon created via Grok)
