Crime Trump shakes down Alphabet for $24.5 million

[HOLA]

Brazil puts their Trump in prison for 27 years. We re-elect ours, so he can force companies to pay bribes, or else he'll fuck with them.

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YouTube to pay $24.5 million to settle lawsuit over Trump's account suspension after Jan. 6 attack

Google’s YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit by President Donald Trump over his 2021 account suspension following the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S.

apnews.com

Google’s YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit President Donald Trump brought after the video site suspended his account following the Jan. 6, 2021 attacks on the Capitol following the election that resulted in him leaving the White House for four years.

The settlement of the more than four-year-old case earmarks $22 million for Trump to contribute to the Trust for the National Mall and a construction of a White House ballroom, according to court documents filed Monday. The remaining $2.5 million will be paid to other parties involved in the case, including the writer Naomi Wolf and the American Conservative Union.

Alphabet, the parent of Google, is the third major technology company to settle a volley of lawsuits that Trump brought for what he alleged had unfairly muzzled him after his first term as president ended in January 2021. He filed similar cases Facebook parent Meta Platforms and Twitter before it was bought by billionaire Elon Musk in 2022 and rebranded as X.

Meta agreed to pay $25 million to settle Trumps’ lawsuit over his 2021 suspension from Facebook and X agreed to settle the lawsuit that Trump brought against Twitter for $10 million. When the lawsuits against Meta. Twitter and YouTube were filed, legal experts predicted Trump had little chance of prevailing.

 

[Kingz]

Des Moines Register likely next. Then Murdoch.

 

[brothir]

Stuff like this will probably prompt these platforms to use shadowbanning or tiering of content/people into more and more restrictive groups as pertains to advertising and overall visibility. Imagine all the trouble YouTube could've saved itself if it just put Trump's channel into the metaphorical "nope" basket.

Seems like an attack on freedom of speech. Since Trump's account was reinstated years ago, he should've just been a bigger man and called off the lawsuit.

 

[ShadowRun]

Freedom of speech, censorship and consequences..

 

[Loiosh]

Freedom of speech, censorship and consequences..

Weird that you're so comfortable with someone using the power of the presidency to extort private companies. Serious banana republic stuff.

When Kimmel was reinstated, Trump bragged that he got 16 million from ABC last time and he should get more this time.

Freedom of speech doesn't have anything to do with private platforms. Elon bought Twitter so now he makes the rules there, that's how it goes.

 

[Seano]

How come the anti fascist party is fascist? Make it make sense.

 

[Seano]

Weird that you're so comfortable with someone using the power of the presidency to extort private companies. Serious banana republic stuff.

When Kimmel was reinstated, Trump bragged that he got 16 million from ABC last time and he should get more this time.

Freedom of speech doesn't have anything to do with private platforms. Elon bought Twitter so now he makes the rules there, that's how it goes.

Poor YouTube, if only they could afford a decent lawyer to fight this obviously unjust lawsuit but alas, they were forced to settle or face financial ruin.



The bald faced hypocrisy with you people is incredible.

 

[HOLA]

Des Moines Register likely next. Then Murdoch.

Is this where the Epstein Files will be hidden?

 

[UberHere]

Stuff like this will probably prompt these platforms to use shadowbanning or tiering of content/people into more and more restrictive groups as pertains to advertising and overall visibility. Imagine all the trouble YouTube could've saved itself if it just put Trump's channel into the metaphorical "nope" basket.

Seems like an attack on freedom of speech. Since Trump's account was reinstated years ago, he should've just been a bigger man and called off the lawsuit.

lol

 

[Confucamus]

Poor YouTube, if only they could afford a decent lawyer to fight this obviously unjust lawsuit but alas, they were forced to settle or face financial ruin.



The bald faced hypocrisy with you people is incredible.

I'm waiting for them to point to some "merger" that is the real reason Youtube had to pay out. That's been their go-to any time these companies have lost or settled with Trump.

 

[ShadowRun]

I'm waiting for them to point to some "merger" that is the real reason Youtube had to pay out. That's been their go-to any time these companies have lost or settled with Trump.

Blue anon is weird.

 

[Blayt7hh]

I'm waiting for them to point to some "merger" that is the real reason Youtube had to pay out. That's been their go-to any time these companies have lost or settled with Trump.

I’m sorry that pointing out a fact is a tough pill for you to swallow.

Seriously, wtf is putting it in quotation even about? You doubt its existence or what?

 

[Confucamus]

I’m sorry that pointing out a fact is a tough pill for you to swallow.

Seriously, wtf is putting it in quotation even about? You doubt its existence or what?

@Seano

Well, that didn't take long.

 

[Loiosh]

Poor YouTube, if only they could afford a decent lawyer to fight this obviously unjust lawsuit but alas, they were forced to settle or face financial ruin.



The bald faced hypocrisy with you people is incredible.

You're ignoring the only point that matters.

Trump is using the power of the presidency to win law suits he couldn't otherwise win. These companies aren't afraid of meeting Trump's ratchet lawyers in the courtroom, they're kneeling before the power of the office.

Are you so far gone you actually see hypocrisy here?

 

[Mr Holmes]

You're ignoring the only point that matters.

Trump is using the power of the presidency to win law suits he couldn't otherwise win. These companies aren't afraid of meeting Trump's ratchet lawyers in the courtroom, they're kneeling before the power of the office.

Are you so far gone you actually see hypocrisy here?

And you're ignoring they deplatformed Trump to kowtow to Biden's administration.

 

[Loiosh]

I'm waiting for them to point to some "merger" that is the real reason Youtube had to pay out. That's been their go-to any time these companies have lost or settled with Trump.

When he first started throwing these law suits around, consensus opinion was that he didn't have a chance of hell of winning. Now that he's president, they're bending the knee.

Based on Trump's success rate while he wasn't president, why do you think that is? Do you think Trump would have any chance to win these cases on the merits?

 

[Loiosh]

And you're ignoring they deplatformed Trump to kowtow to Biden's administration.

No, I'm not, because that didn't happen.

Trump broke the rules and was banned. YouTube wasn't threatened to make that happen.

You're on the record trusting both O'Keefe and Dore, your opinion on what happens politically is irrelevant.

 

[Mr Holmes]

No, I'm not, because that didn't happen.

Trump broke the rules and was banned. YouTube wasn't threatened to make that happen.

You're on the record trusting both O'Keefe and Dore, your opinion on what happens politically is irrelevant.

You're on record lying about and taking Charlie Kirk quotes out of context to dunk on a dead man. Your opinion on what happens politically is irrelevant.

 

[ShadowRun]

You're ignoring the only point that matters.

Trump is using the power of the presidency to win law suits he couldn't otherwise win. These companies aren't afraid of meeting Trump's ratchet lawyers in the courtroom, they're kneeling before the power of the office.

Are you so far gone you actually see hypocrisy here?

Cool where is the proof that Trump uses the gov to win lawsuits, not speculation?

So if any more lawsuits happen and Trump wins, by default the thinkings he's the president of course he won?

 

[Loiosh]

You're on record lying about and taking Charlie Kirk quotes out of context to dunk on a dead man. Your opinion on what happens politically is irrelevant.

No.

This is just you trying to suck political juice out of a tragedy. Charlie said a lot of despicable, hateful things but if anyone quotes him and gets it even slightly wrong, you'll use that as an excuse to pretend all accusations are a lie.

I don't know if you're a zealot or an imbecile but the other day I offered to provide evidence of your propagandists lying through videos, and you weren't interested. You responded with a gif and vanished. You didn't care, because the truth isn't actually important to you, only winning.