I heard the Hon. Tulsi Gabbard tell this story on an appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast . The way she

I heard the Hon. Tulsi Gabbard tell this story on an appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast. The way she tells it, she's in the middle of a presidential debate (I think the first one), she's doing well and she has a whole Google Ads campaign loaded up for people searching for her name. Just as the searching kicks off her ad campaign gets suspended for several hours, with no explanation.

So she sues under the First Amendment. The case gets thrown out because Google isn't the government. All true, but what else can she do? This is profoundly sketchy on Google's part and illustrates just how much power they have. What else could she have done to hold them accountable? Also, it's a little disturbing to me how much The New York Times here downplays the particulars of the case, though its original story on the law suit explains more.

She could have been fudging the story a little, I don't know, but when you consider who her enemies are and which parts of the establishment Google has aligned itself with, it's pretty wild. Not a bad take.