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Re:YouTube caves to Trump with $24.5M settlement by joemazerino on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @10:24AM (#45425865)
"Caves" is doing heavy lifting work here. Censoring a president should come with repercussions.
Re:YouTube caves to Trump with $24.5M settlement by Retric on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @10:39AM (#45426068)
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.

Re:YouTube caves to Trump with $24.5M settlement by FireBeyond on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @11:02AM (#45426376)
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".

Re:YouTube caves to Trump with $24.5M settlement by Fairburn on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @12:41PM (#45427773)
Kick rocks. Pres. Bonespurs was a civi at the time and a full-on pos that deserved to be kicked off.
Re:YouTube caves to Trump with $24.5M settlement by scuff3d on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @01:49PM (#45428726)
Not when that president incites a terrorist attack against the US government...
Re:YouTube caves to Trump with $24.5M settlement by lenkite on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @02:14PM (#45429077)
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 ?
Re:YouTube caves to Trump with $24.5M settlement by cosmicgadget on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @06:02PM (#45431781)
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.

Re:YouTube caves to Trump with $24.5M settlement by scuff3d on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @12:42AM (#45434297)
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.