pjmedia.com By STEPHEN GREENÂ
It happened again. Google slapped the “dangerous or derogatory content” label on three of my recent columns. Each of them is truthful, reasonable, and polite â if occasionally pointed. But factual opinion writing doesn’t matter in Big Tech’s ongoing effort to silence conservative speech online.
The first article that Google demonetized stung me personally. It’s headlined “They Were Too Young to Consent but Now They’re Old Enough to Sue,” and I was proud of having written it. Readers responded warmly to it, too. It’s a heartbreaking story of a troubled teenage girl â now in her early 20s â who has filed suit against the medical centers and medical professionals whom she believes ruined her life by bullying her into undergoing a âgender-affirmingâ double mastectomy at the age of 16 and endless testosterone injections that left her emotionally and physically wounded.
I remember thinking that the young woman’s tragic story was too “dangerous or derogatory” to publish outside the paywall. I also remember deciding her story was too important not to share with the widest possible audience. Today I learned that every time someone clicks on that young woman’s story, every time someone reads the truth, it causes financial harm to the company brave enough to publish it…
