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Re:YouTube bans Steve Bannon's podcast channel by Barrin92 on Sunday January 10, 2021 @10:01PM (#25723836)
it's arguably the inverse of this. They're doing it because they don't feel threatened by a Republican administration any more. With or without specific regulation threats the workforces and often also leaders of these companies would have done it years ago.
Re:YouTube bans Steve Bannon's podcast channel by rubyist5eva on Sunday January 10, 2021 @10:29PM (#25724047)
Democratic members of congress have repeatedly called for the breakup and/or regulation of "big tech", just for different reasons.
Re:YouTube bans Steve Bannon's podcast channel by gameswithgo on Sunday January 10, 2021 @10:49PM (#25724216)
As a liberal in big tech, I can assure you the primary motivation is that we are

1. horrified by trump, always have been 2. aren't concerned that trump will unilaterally end our business if we oppose him anymore 3. are extremely concerned about american democracy and our lives, given the way trump has convinced almost half the country that the election was rigged, which has encouraged them to almost kill an entire branch of our government

AND BEAT ONE POLICE OFFICER TO DEATH WITH AN AMERICAN FLAG WHILE CHANTING THE MUTATIONAL ANTHEM

we in big tech are not robots, sir.

Re:YouTube bans Steve Bannon's podcast channel by hellgas00 on Monday January 11, 2021 @05:53AM (#25727217)
Do you remember Russiagate? How half the country literally believed that Trump was a puppet of Russia, and that Russia had hacked the election. Hilary Clinton wrote a book about it. I will say that Trump should act with more tact and decorum, but just months ago CHAZ was a literal autonomous zone acting outside of the laws and authority of the city of Seattle. Nobody should have had their ability to communicate freely online taken away because of it, but fascists apply mental gymnastics to affirm one moral stance against another depending on the person commiting the crime.
Re:YouTube bans Steve Bannon's podcast channel by 8note on Monday January 11, 2021 @11:42AM (#25731456)
When you say literally, I think you can't say "hacked the election"

You instead have to say what people literally think/thought: that Russians hacked the democrats to release more emails and the like.

Nobody thought the russians hacked the actual election to change votes and the like, just that they influenced it illegally at the behest of the trump campaign

Re:YouTube bans Steve Bannon's podcast channel by MrMan on Monday January 11, 2021 @08:15AM (#25728449)
Yeah Chaz was ridiculous and a gift to tucker Carlson. I am glad all that stuff is over it was embarrassing.
Re:YouTube bans Steve Bannon's podcast channel by rubyist5eva on Monday January 11, 2021 @06:12PM (#25739343)
Yeah, 3 years of fake Russian collusion and peepee tapes and a waste of a special counsel, followed by months of BLM riots where over 30 people died. And a literally insurrection in the CHAZ/CHOP where they actually tried to declare separate sovereignty from the united states and annexing land...I don't really take liberals opinions that seriously.