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YouTube suspends Trump's channel after violating policy on inciting violence

Published 01/12/2021, 11:40 PM
Updated 01/13/2021, 02:35 AM
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(Reuters) - Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Inc's YouTube said on Tuesday it has suspended Donald Trump's channel as it violated policies for inciting violence after last week's assault on the U.S. Capitol by the president's supporters.

Online platforms and social media companies are distancing themselves from, and taking action against, those that encouraged or engaged in the violence in Washington, DC.

Trump's channel is now prevented from uploading new videos or livestreams for a minimum of seven days, which may be extended, Youtube said in a statement.

The company has also indefinitely disabled comments under videos on the channel.

The suspension of Trump's channel came after comments that he made at a news conference, which was streamed on the platform on Tuesday morning, the company said.

Youtube's action against the president comes after U.S. civil rights groups told Reuters that they were set to organize an advertiser boycott against the company if it does not remove Trump's channel.

Supporters of Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, trying to halt the certification by Congress of President-elect Joe Biden's election win.

Trump, who has challenged the validity of Biden's victory without producing evidence, initially praised his supporters but later condemned the violence.

Lawmakers were forced to flee as the building was mobbed by protesters who overwhelmed security forces. Five people died in the violence, including one Capitol Police officer.

After the incident, Twitter and Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) removed Trump's accounts and have been eliminating content supporting last week's assault, while Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) suspended Parler, a social media platform favored by many supporters of Trump, from its web hosting service.

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am I the only one who remembers 2 months ago???
Freedom of the speech doesn't mean inciting domestic terrorists to destroy our nation, breaking the law.
You are right, however, when this incitement comes from Democrat leaders or left wing people is ok, isn't it? Btw, a private business such as Twitter has the right to refuse doing business with anyone, the problem is when the whole industry orchestrate a ban at the same time and deliberately shut down the only competitor that this rejected customer has as a choice. I think this configures an Oligopoly in front of our eyes! The big tech are clearly breaking the 'antitrust law', they must be investigated.
Anna the Constitution says The GOVERNMENT shall make no.laws abridging or interfering in the right to free speech. private companies. pretty.much as they see fit, unless you're a die hard socialist and think that companies should be run by and controlled by the government
Democrat double standards...
Anna your comparing insurrection, sedition. and an attempted coup, to what ....civil rights demonstrators.
Anna, it has nothing to do with the Democrats. It's just pre-existing written policy (that applies to all users) by a private company. Nothing to do with government or politics.
as usual, americans....
everyone on the extreme right should have their accounts suspended for life they are all terrorists and they are planning  terror attacks now throughout the county God help us all they should lose their rights to free speech and assembly......violence, terrorism and Sedition are not covered
So says the far left. I feel whoever it was thought it was ok to do it (seattle, new york, chicago, etc)
fascist and fascism is more about a believe system that supports strong man dictatorships than the violent actions they use to install them.
Santos there is a. massive difference between unorganized rioters and major armed right wing organizations trying to overthrow American Democracy.
With all respect, here you are showing the same double standard the media shows regarding the left and the right wing... There is no difference between radicals, left or right. Anti+Blm caused way more harm to the US cities than this condemned invasion of the Capitol. Are you in the US, a big metropolis? Say to the victims from Antifa+Blm that they were "peaceful people", "it was all about "civil rights protest", it was not, do not try the same misinformation the media impose to us. I'm in Beverly Hills, CA, till this day, the small businesses around the city have been boarded up! Whoever supports pres Trump get attacked, this is not a joke. You said disorganized group? You must blind yourself for the facts or just been bias... I can speak for Los Angeles, look, I didn't hear or see it on TV, I saw it with my own eyes, piles of bricks in certain points of the city were placed just before the "peaceful Antifa+Blm" passed by... Huge groups marching like the Nazis... Disorganized??? Joke!
Santos- rioters that called themselves Antifa and destroyed property or harmed peaceful demonstrators were arrested tried an if found guity were jailed. the right wing scrum that attacked the Capitol were mostly armed traitors committing sedition agaist American Democracy. and were organized to overthrow the government. pip bombs Molotov cocktails and zip ties to use on members of Congress.
Fascism? and how could you call what happened and all the violence. The only problem is that we we got use to it.
Certainly no one agrees with what happened on Wed at the Capitol. The problem is the double standard my friend. I didn't see the same outraged behavior from the media when the Antifa+Blm stormed throughout US cities, assaulted, looted and even burned down a lot of businesses! without mentioning the deaths!
Amen
wow fascism in action, next step open camps for peolle that does not support the democrat partie and the silicon valley partie
Santos they did; the ones that were found guilty of crimes were jailed. there's a massive difference between unorganized group of anarchist and organized armed far right groups who.committed sedition, trying to bring down American Democracy.
 You mean the riots? They got everyone? Must have been half of the country.
no *****.e r most of the civil rights demonstrators this summer were peaceful over ninty-five percent were ordinary citizens concerned about civil rights of black citizens. unfortunately the maga crowd were there because of the lies of Trump and the far right insurrectionists.
Truth is now verboten.
LITTLE bobby--the truth is anyone supporting armed sedition and the ****of members of Congress need a visit from the FBI.
armed? like the CHAZ shooters?
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