YouTube Settles Trump Lawsuit For $24.5 Million And A Subscription To YouTube Premium

YouTube is the last of the big three social media platforms (including Meta and Friends Reunited) to settle a lawsuit over banning him from their platforms, which is exciting for my cousin Jared, who was also banned from social media, and he could really use the money right now.

Alphabet (the company that owns YourTubes) will pay $22 million to the Trust for the National Mall, the nonprofit that plans to build a White House Ballroom, and $2.5 million to other plaintiffs in the case, such as the American Conservative Union, whatever that is.

TACO Trump responded to the news on Truth Social (not one of the big three by the way, not even top ten), saying, “This MASSIVE victory proves Big Tech censorship has consequences.” So true.

Meta also settled with Trump for £25 million, while X leveraged the Musk connection to wangle just a $10 million bribe, sorry, ‘fee’. …Bargain.

Trump was originally banned from these three platforms during the 2020 insurrection/riot/peaceful protest, as platforms were worried he would incite further violence. Trump was, however, later reinstated, and these latest settlements indicate these companies’ desire to remain in the king’s good favor. Sorry, I meant to say president.

YouTube has also stated it would reinstate a number of YouTube accounts, saying that it “values conservative voices on its platform and recognizes that these creators have extensive reach and play an important role in civic discourse.”

Yeah, sure it does…

Here’s the thing: these massive companies only have one value, and it’s survival. They might change their banner to support gay pride or climate awareness, but the moment the wind changes and the powerful turn against those values, they will drop them at a moment’s notice. They have a giant marketing machines that will try to win public and political favor by whatever means necessary in a way that is completely separate from their actual values as a company and as people.

Don’t fall for it.

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