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Re:YouTube bans Steve Bannon's podcast channel by OJFord on Monday January 11, 2021 @07:31AM (#25728033)
As a native speaker, I've seen it too, and it's just wrong.

If you suspended someone and then said 'we're making your suspension permanent', it sounds like a 'cute'/think-you're-on-a-soap-opera way of saying 'you're now fired/expelled(/as applicable)'. Suspensions end. Even a suspension bridge for example is alluding to some temporal aspect, the natural outcome (gravity having its way) would be different.

Re:YouTube bans Steve Bannon's podcast channel by enkid on Monday January 11, 2021 @07:34AM (#25728067)
Suspend means to literally hold up above the ground. A suspension bridge is called that because something is "above" it holding it up.
Re:YouTube bans Steve Bannon's podcast channel by OJFord on Monday January 11, 2021 @07:59AM (#25728294)
Yes. And when that thing ceases to hold it up, it will come crashing down.