YouTube caves to Trump with $24.5M settlement

https://www.theverge.com/news/787932/youtube-trump-ban-lawsuit-settlement

58•latexr•4mo ago

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tdeck•4mo ago

I wonder what they are being threatened with behind closed doors. Google has the money to fight this lawsuit.

mc32•4mo ago

Probably the same stick all admins have: the threat of letting the DOJ pursue anti-monopolistic behavior. If they "behave" the DOJ lets them continue in their ways. If they don't they allow the possibility of getting the giants split up.

notgoodrobot•4mo ago

I think op means, I wonder what it means to "behave" in this context. I wonder what is actually being pursued?

jmpman•4mo ago

Money going to a ballroom…

swarnie•4mo ago

In unexpected news Larry E. and Jared K. have just announced the formation of a ballroom building company.

Who saw that coming?

joemazerino•4mo ago

"Caves" is doing heavy lifting work here. Censoring a president should come with repercussions.

Retric•4mo ago

No, compelled speech falls under free speech. You can kick people off a platform because you disagree with them. They can even demonetize people for perfectly legal activities.

So, legally YouTube is fine, politically things are different.

FireBeyond•4mo ago

Precisely, these platforms are settling specifically because this president openly looks to punish and hold grudges and have vendettas against whom he sees, and describes, as his enemies.

This is a matter of Google saying "he can do more than $25M of damage to us if we keep fighting this".

Fairburn•4mo ago

Kick rocks. Pres. Bonespurs was a civi at the time and a full-on pos that deserved to be kicked off.

scuff3d•4mo ago

Not when that president incites a terrorist attack against the US government...

lenkite•4mo ago

You mean the one in which there were 275 federal agents - some of which who were extremely fit and masked people who broke open windows, urging people to get in. Also hit and shoved away the unmasked protestors who asked them what the hell they were doing ?

cosmicgadget•4mo ago

You're saying Trump was voted out so the FBI(?) tried to stop the count. And then the Biden DOJ decided not to prosecute them?

Seems plausible.

scuff3d•4mo ago

People are really living in their own reality these days. Don't know how we get back to any level of sanity when a non-trivial portion of the population is this detached from reality.

Sadly this is also why no matter how corrupt Trump gets, his base won't abandon him. The God Emperor can do no wrong.

guywithahat•4mo ago

"caves" is an odd word choice. The platform banned the president of the united states, libeling him in the process, which feels like a pretty big and harmful deal. I don't want big tech regulating which politicians we're allowed to know about, and I would imagine most people would agree whether it's about a Republican or Democrat.

zenitsukz•4mo ago

Average politician hasn't tried to steal an election though

pacman1337•4mo ago

Many people have difficulty understanding the difference between a belief and a fact. I.e, you are talking about a belief but talking like it is a fact.

zenitsukz•4mo ago

Sorry, what exactly is "not a fact" about it?

guywithahat•4mo ago

I mean Meta, X, and Google have all paid him out so far.

Why would you think he tried to steal the election? What lead you to this belief? I don't think I know anyone in real life who holds this belief, I genuinely don't know why someone would think this.

zenitsukz•4mo ago

Not sure what these companies paying the authoritarian tax is supposed to say about anything other than the president openly takes bribes.

> I don't think I know anyone in real life who holds this belief

Maybe you just don't know anyone who knows any of the facts? -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_fake_electors_plot

guywithahat•4mo ago

I don't want to get too political on HN, but you should know according to the article essentially all of the money went to the government or lawyers, not Trump.

zenitsukz•4mo ago

Sure, "not Trump" just the pointless ballroom he decided to have built.

UncleMeat•4mo ago

Yeah because we have a fascist fucking government and they are more interested in money than principle.

The effort to have false electors vote for Trump as president in 2020 is extremely documented. What exactly would you call that if not stealing the election?

pacman1337•4mo ago

Can you at least admit that it isn't a fact like the sky is blue or gravity pulls objects together?

zenitsukz•4mo ago

Except it is. It's been years since one of the most well documented attempts at a steal ever. Only the willfully blind remain unaware, it's undeniable -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_fake_electors_plot

LocalH•4mo ago

In the US, it's not libel if it's true.

FireBeyond•4mo ago

How do you feel about Google's settlement being a donation to a Trust that's building the "Trump Ballroom"? Helpfully, Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law, has formed a company that handles construction management for event spaces...

Fairburn•4mo ago

Knowing about and having to hear his lies are two diff things.

Fairburn•4mo ago

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YouTube caves to Trump with $24.5M settlement

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