YouTube de-platformed a sitting president in days, then spent years looking the other way as Taliban supporters, Iranian state propagandists and Chinese Communist Party outlets pumped content onto its platform. Now, after a reported $24.5 million settlement with Donald Trump, Anthony Holm argues Big Tech has admitted what conservatives knew all along — the rules are political, not principled.
In this episode of Politics with the Big Dogs, Anthony walks through the Trump ban, the lawsuit and what “censorship with a smile from Silicon Valley” means for every American who relies on YouTube as their primary source of news. If they can silence a president, what can they do to you?
Then Anthony brings on Monique Alcala, former executive director of the Texas Democratic Party, for a tough, unfiltered conversation about whether Democrats have abandoned mainstream voters. They clash over trans politics, crime, abortion, redistricting, property taxes and why Democratic infrastructure in Texas has “completely fallen apart” even as Republicans waste their majority.