YouTube ordered to pay Trump and others $24.5 million for colluding with Biden regime to censor conservatives

[HikerGuy83]

There's no requirement that you understand the issue

Got it.

You can't explain it.

 

[whitehall]

24 million is chump change. Somebody should go to jail.

 

[IDIOCRACY]

The anti-civil rights mob that ran wild under Joe Biden's disastrous, fascist regime is well into the FO phase of FAFO.

And it's beautiful to see.

YouTube will be funding the new White House ballroom!

Libs are a funny bunch aint they? They figured this Kimmel business was something, and Democrats get a free pass.

******* democrats aren't even original, the past has no history, and the hypocrisy and denial through the roof.

 

[HikerGuy83]

24 million is chump change. Somebody should go to jail.

For what?

 

[ColonelAngus]

What the excuse used at the time for banning Trump from YOUTUBE?

 

[PeanutGallery]

Anyone going to answer this question.

What did Trump have that others don't have.

He isn't the only banned.

And I suspect Youtube can ban your fanny just because they don't like your choice of breakfast cereal.

Maybe not?

And you would be wrong. That's the reason why YouTube has a Terms of Service policy of what's acceptable or not acceptable on their platform that users had to agree to for access and have to follow to stay on the platform. If the case went to trial, Google would've to show specifically in their Terms of Service what Trump and others violated to be removed from their platform. That's why in the title is says Trump and OTHERS are getting paid a settlement.

When you get pressured from the government to remove people/content and you follow, you're no longer acting like a private company. You're acting as an agent of the government. What happened would be a violation of the 1st Amendment by proxy. The government can't take down content they don't like, so they pressure a company to do it for them. It's kind of like the mob coming in a store and saying that's you have a good store ... it'll be a shame if something happened to it. Did YouTube want to upset an incoming or current administration who can put regulations and pass laws that could hurt their business? You want to try and sue a government that can just print money?

 

[HikerGuy83]

And you would be wrong. That's the reason why YouTube has a Terms of Service policy of what's acceptable or not acceptable on their platform that users had to agree to for access and have to follow to stay on the platform. If the case went to trial, Google would've to show specifically in their Terms of Service what Trump and others violated to be removed from their platform. That's why in the title is says Trump and OTHERS are getting paid a settlement.

I assumed there was something like that in the agreement. You are the first to actually call it out.

Thank you.

That's all I was trying to get at.

Without it....there would be nothing.

When you get pressured from the government to remove people/content and you follow, you're no longer acting like a private company.

And there is the rub. This is connection that is murky.

You're acting as an agent of the government.

Which is what Trump would have to prove.

What happened would be a violation of the 1st Amendment by proxy.

Again...murky.

Did YouTube want to upset an incoming or current administration who can put regulations and pass laws that could hurt their business?

That is what works against you. If you stand behind this, then it's a business decision, not a 1st amendment case. Big difference. But one I understand.

However, if YOUTUBE was pressured by Biden, why does Trump settle. Seems like this gets Biden off the hook. Not sure how I view that part of it.

 

[PeanutGallery]

I assumed there was something like that in the agreement. You are the first to actually call it out.

Thank you.

That's all I was trying to get at.

Without it....there would be nothing.



And there is the rub. This is connection that is murky.


Which is what Trump would have to prove.


Again...murky.

That is what works against you. If you stand behind this, then it's a business decision, not a 1st amendment case. Big difference. But one I understand.

However, if YOUTUBE was pressured by Biden, why does Trump settle. Seems like this gets Biden off the hook. Not sure how I view that part of it.

Google, who owns YouTube, has just recently admitted that they censored political speech on the behalf of the Biden administration. Yahoo That would be Trump's "Exhibit A" if this case ever went to trial. What would YouTube offer to counter their own admission? Take it back? Offer that it was given under duress?

After the admission, they're being business smart by setting the terms up front instead of letting Trump and others get an opportunity to have a court do it for them.

 

[marvin martian]

Trump is the fascist although he doesn't seem educated or intelligent enough to understand ideologies or for that matter anything. But Trump is not a conservative, he is a mini-fascist, a convicted sex offender, and a compulsive liar. One wonders are his fans really this dumb and hateful.

What Does It Mean That Donald Trump Is a Fascist?

Trump takes the tools of dictators and adapts them for the Internet. We should expect him to try to cling to power until death, and create a cult of January 6th martyrs.

www.newyorker.com

You're projecting again.

We all saw you do this. We know who the real fascists are:

 

[marvin martian]

Your thread titles are getting more and more comically detached from reality, and consequently more full of shit.

Flashback: Trump sued Meta, X and Google over their moves to suspend his accounts on their platforms in 2021, alleging their actions were "unconstitutional" and violated his First Amendment rights.

• X described Trump's presence on the platform at the time as a "risk of further incitement of violence."

Reality check: The First Amendment prohibits the government from restricting free speech, not private companies.

• At the time, legal experts and First Amendment scholars said Trump's suits were unlikely to go far.
• "The First Amendment simply protects citizens from government censorship," Syracuse University associate professor Roy Gutterman told Axios' Sara Fischer in 2021. "Social media platforms exercise great power, but they are not a branch of government."

https://www.axios.com/2025/09/29/youtube-trump-settlement-google-january-6

This settlement follows a disturbing pattern of companies handing over their lunch money to the schoolyard bully. A bully willing to corruptly wield the power of the federal government against them as a fascist dictator would.

Catch up quick: Meta and X have both settled their lawsuits already. ABC and CBS have both settled lawsuits that legal experts called baseless.

Remember, this was all done at the behest of your fascist president Joe Biden. They threatened and intimidated these private companies.

 

[HikerGuy83]

Google, who owns YouTube, has just recently admitted that they censored political speech on the behalf of the Biden administration. Yahoo That would be Trump's "Exhibit A" if this case ever went to trial. What would YouTube offer to counter their own admission? Take it back? Offer that it was given under duress?

After the admission, they're being business smart by setting the terms up front instead of letting Trump and others get an opportunity to have a court do it for them.

Thanks.

I still have to wonder why Trump would accept any kind of settlement since a court case would compel Google to demonstrate how corrupt Biden and Crew were.

But that is just me.

I appreciate the information.