So much winning.
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$24M is a drop in the Gulf of America to gurgle/YT. $240B would have been more appropriate, and would just be an attention getter. $2.4T would have been Justice. I mean hell THEY sued AJ for how many $BILLIONS almost a $TRILLION? All in violation of the 1stA.
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Hoping this instigates a class action lawsuit representing the dozens/hundreds of conservative businesses and individuals that were de-platformed and de-monetized for simply speaking the truth. That might leave a mark…
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At the will of the Biden administration.
I wish I had a way back machine so the leftist screaming at Trump today about free speech could scream at Biden.
These are the issues that should unify us.
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I was thinking the same thing! The precedent has been set now Go! $24M for every person de-platformed seems fair.
Fully understood. So, hopefully the YouTube, Old Twitter, CBS and Facebooks of the world are already learning and the next time a censorship regime occupies the White House, of any party, they will stand up for their user’s freedom of speech and tell them would-be censors to go pound sand. What the Biden administration did was horrible. This is accountability.
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Worth noting that this was a settlement with no admission of wrongdoing. Basically a payout to make it go away. I wish one of these companies had the courage to fight it, but it is daunting I suppose when the president can ruin the company. Maybe NYT will stand tall?
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The reason why they settle is same reason anyone settles….discovery.
Just like when FOX paid dominion. They settled because discovery would expose their underbellies. All text messages, all emails, all processes are fair game for exposure.
Youtube had $billions to fight with, but money was not the concern.
Biden did not have to fight like this, he had all their cooperation.
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That’s not why things are always settled. Just ask any insurance company.
No, money was not the concern.
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I wish they would all grow a spine and stand up to Trump too.
There’s a name for what Trump is guilty of here.
ex·tor·tion
noun
the practice of obtaining something, especially money, through force or threats.
“he used bribery and extortion to build himself a huge, art-stuffed mansion”
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You guys are dead wrong. The courts are the best place for these companies.
Unless…..information and exposure is your enemy. FOX paid $787.5 million to avoid it.
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Relax.
Or are you just going to add that to the other list of extremist labels he is assigned by the left?
Extortionist
Fascist
Nazi
Transphobe
Racist
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Then maybe Trump shouldn’t have settled.
I agree with you, so how can I be wrong? Standing up to Trump means going to court and fighting, not bending the knee and paying him off so he’ll just shut up, because as most are finding out, it only emboldens Trump to come back at them again later.
FOX news settled out of court because they were fighting a losing battle. They didn’t want all the emails and texts of their “journalists” coming out and basically calling their audience a bunch of idiots for believing such BS, that and they were afraid of losing their audience$$$ to Newsmax.
Fox news settled out of court emails - Google Search
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Fox News settled a defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5 million in April 2023, just as the trial was set to begin
. The settlement brought to light internal emails and text messages from Fox hosts and executives that showed they knowingly amplified false claims about the 2020 election.
Key details revealed by the emails and texts during the lawsuit’s discovery process include:
Awareness of falsehoods: The internal communications revealed that top Fox News personalities and executives, including Rupert Murdoch, did not believe the conspiracy theories being promoted on the network. Some privately described the claims as “crazy,” “nuts,” and “ludicrous”.
Concern over ratings: The messages exposed concerns among network leaders that fact-checking the election fraud claims would alienate viewers who supported Donald Trump and drive them to competitors like Newsmax. In one email, a Fox executive worried that fact-checking was “bad for business” and that “the audience is furious”.
Distaste for Trump: Some internal communications included scornful remarks about Trump. Text exchanges showed host Tucker Carlson writing that he “hate[d] him passionately” and was close to being able to “ignore Trump most nights”.
Tension between news and opinion: The documents revealed a clash between the network’s news and opinion sides. After the 2020 election, the managing editor of Fox’s Washington D.C. bureau expressed frustration over the network’s focus on election fraud, describing it as an “existential crisis…at least journalistically”.
The settlement was the largest known defamation payout in U.S. media history. By settling, Fox avoided a public trial where key figures would have had to testify.
If the shoe fits….. also you forgot one, hypocrite.
Maybe. For a man who is spent the last 10 years defending himself from traitors, I think he did the right thing.
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He violated You Tube’s policy. They have the right to remove anyone who violates the terms of use.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is how the left is radicalized further. Progressives are running out of ideas but not inflammatory labels.
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Yeah. Well, they should have banned everyone, eh? Maxine Waters, Pelosi, Shifty Sh*t, Schumer, etc. etc.
If they violated terms of use, yes.