Re:YouTube caves to Trump with $24.5M settlement
by latexr on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @07:42PM
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> If it were true, Google, Meta, and X wouldn't have paid out ~60 million so far.
They paid because they fear that not caving would be worse for them. Lawsuits aren’t cheap, and it’s a common tactic to sue someone to burden them with the costs of fighting it, thus getting them to shut up.
In this case, they also have to feat the possibility of legal repercussions in other ways, such as having business deals deliberately stalled or denied in retaliation, something the Trump administration has made very clear is something they are OK with doing.
They paid because they fear that not caving would be worse for them. Lawsuits aren’t cheap, and it’s a common tactic to sue someone to burden them with the costs of fighting it, thus getting them to shut up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_publ...
In this case, they also have to feat the possibility of legal repercussions in other ways, such as having business deals deliberately stalled or denied in retaliation, something the Trump administration has made very clear is something they are OK with doing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension_of_Jimmy_Kimmel_Liv...!
> based off a protest
You are oversimplifying.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022–2023_Brazilian_coup_plot