To be honest, every single time I dig in to a conservative complaining "they are singling me out for my views!!" I do more research and find that it is 99% bullshit. Not 100% bullshit mind you, because it's that 1% that is nominally true so they can leave out the rest of the context.

Here is a more complete discussion of Prager's charges of censorship, and in my opinion they are laughable: https://reason.com/2019/07/18/dennis-prager-who-boasts-1-bil...

> "Respectfully, senator, that's not right," replied Bhatia, explaining that those videos contained mature topics—murder, rape, etc. He reiterated that they are still visible to the "98.5 percent" of YouTube users who do not opt for restricted mode.

Who would have thought that another conservative story about censorship would turn out to be bullshit.

It’s not like the people parroting them have the impetuous to check though, it’s much easier and more comfortable to drone on about “YouTube blocking a video about the 10 commandments” over and over until it becomes your reality, where you’re persecuted.

Multiple studies have shown that Facebook and twitter do not censor conservatives. This has been well established and anyone who argues otherwise is either ignorant or arguing from a position of bad faith.

https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/10/two-new-studies-show-again...

> What we see for prominent conservatives, however, feels very unfair to me

I find this extremely ironic given that the slogan "facts don't care about your feelings" is attributed to conservatives in particular

All the "conservatives/libertarians" I've followed on youtube have been both demonetized and had videos suspended. It's a small sample size but all?!, what a coincidence. From the "left leaning" channels I follow I've not seen the same complain.

I don't follow anyone on facebook or twitter I can't vouch for those, maybe it's just youtube who does all the censoring.

In general "conservatives" seem to have a harder time following TOS on hate speech, bullying, racism, sexism etc.

Maybe if you name/link them we can decide if it was reasonable or not.

On youtube

Joe Rogan, Sargon of Akkad, Viva Frey, Academic Agent, Thunderf00t, 1791

> Multiple studies have shown

Are you talking about the two in this article, or alluding to more?

The studies:

1) https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/26/censorship-conserva...

"The findings demonstrate how a small number of conservative users routinely outpace their liberal rivals and traditional news outlets in driving the online conversation — amplifying their impact a little more than a week before Election Day. They contradict the prevailing political rhetoric from some Republican lawmakers that conservative voices are censored online — indicating that instead, right-leaning talking points continue to shape the worldviews of millions of U.S. voters."

2) https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/new-study-finds-facebo...

"right-leaning pages consistently earned more average weekly interactions than either left-leaning or ideologically nonaligned pages"

This doesn't seem to me to support that "Facebook and twitter do not censor conservatives";

The assumption seems to be that if conservatives are ultimately more influential, they mustn't have been censored. I'm also not sure how fine-grained the distinction of right/left leaning is.

If all conservatives voices are censored except for a few far-right/extremist voices that are amplified, does this balance out? Add a few more dimensions and you might come up with a different conclusion.

In any case, I'll need to see more before I agree it's "well established".

It’s weird to claim that YouTube has a bias against right wing media and then shrug and say well I have no idea if left wing media suffers equally arbitrary censorship or not. That makes no sense as a stance.

Are you referring to Donald Trump?