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Re:YouTube suspends Donald Trump's channel by krzyk on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @06:20AM (#25760697)
> An alternate reading is that a sitting president ignored for years the contracts he agreed to when signing up to those services

So why wasn't he removed earlier?

> now he's not president

I don't know US system that well, but from what I heard he is still president and will step down in a week or two.

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Re:YouTube suspends Donald Trump's channel by detaro on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @06:24AM (#25760723)
Because they thought letting him stay was overall the better idea. Twitter added some rules around "world leaders" when they were pressured to give a reason: https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/company/2019/...
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Re:YouTube suspends Donald Trump's channel by ben_w on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @06:29AM (#25760760)
US government officials have accused him of incitement of insurrection, and are working to impeach him and remove him faster than scheduled.
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Re:YouTube suspends Donald Trump's channel by MrMan on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @01:55PM (#25766414)
Trump was very profitable for the media. But this shit is getting too real, and they know it, so now they go the opposite direction.

In the absence of hate speech laws and some guidance to regulate social media to prevent mass psychosis, this kind of thing is expected.

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