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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".