Last week, The Iowa Standard told our readers about the lecture hosted at Iowa State University featuring Will “Lia” Thomas. Thomas spent nearly his entire competitive swimming career racing against other men. But changed his gender identity to female and started hormone replacement therapy while competing for the Univeristy of Penn.
He was allowed to compete against women and eventually won an NCAA Division I Women’s National Championship.
Our story was called: WILL ‘LIA’ THOMAS VISITS ISU: Laws protecting women’s sports aren’t stealing opportunities, men competing in women’s sports are
Feel free to click it. Feel free to read it. And please, let us know what is dangerous about it. Or what is derogatory about it. Please.
To us, what we wrote isn’t nearly as dangerous as having men compete against women. I mean, it’d be interesting if we could ask the high school volleyball player in North Carolina who suffered a concussion when a spike went off her face following an attack from a “transgender female” male.
As far as I know, I’ve never written an article that resulted in someone getting a concussion, head injury or brain injury.
Here’s the deal — we know what this is. This is a censorship effort by Big Tech, in this case Google, attempting to force us to use their language and follow the lie of gender identity.
Thus far, the Iowa legislature hasn’t done anything about Big Tech censorship either. The Iowa Senate passed a bill addressing it a few years ago, but the Iowa House killed it. The issue has not been touched since.
Yet it is no less an issue.
Google, as you may know, has a data center in Iowa. It’s a pretty big data center at 2,890,000 square feet. And, according to a July 3, 2024 story, Google is planning to invest another $1 billion in the data center in Council Bluffs.
Google was also confirmed in March of 2024 as being the company behind a data center campus in Cedar Rapids.
According to another story, Google qualifies for economic incentives, including a 20-year, 70-percent tax exemption as long as job creation and employment thresholds are met.
In March of 2024, the Iowa Economic Development Authority board signed off on a $56 million local tax break over 20 years to support Google’s potential new $576 million data center in Cedar Rapids. That’s just a couple of years after the Iowa Economic Development Authority board signed off on Google getting a $16.6 million local property tax break for over 20 years.
So it sure seems like Google appreciates government involvement when it comes to economic incentives for the company. But what about government involvement when it comes to the company punishing Iowa residents for exercising their free speech and essentially censoring them?
