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. Capitol.
According to documents filed in federal court in California, $22 million of the settlement will be contributed to the Trust for the National Mall to help pay for the construction of the White House State Ballroom. The rest will go to other plaintiffs, including the American Conservative Union.
Not even just the government. These are basically payoffs from companies like Google to curry favor.
I’m so sick of these companies that sold themselves as making the world a better place for two fucking decades immediately just turning tail and deciding actually just paying off the king for better treatment positioning is better than democracy. It’s all so short sighted and absolutely fuck-stupid.
start collecting names of people doing this and deal with them after this regime is gone
Or before it’s gone, less judicially.
What, did you expect MBAs to be smart?
I mean, fair, but we’re talking about Alphabet/Google/Youtube which was founded and run by two computer scientists until very recently. To my knowledge both Sergei Brin and Larry Page continue to be controlling shareholders, and while Page stepped down in 2019, Brin came back in 2023 to contribute to Google’s AI efforts.
Just because they vote on some stuff once a year doesn’t mean they control the company.
I guess my point is Google was shit long before this when those guys still ran the company. Hell, even Eric Schmidt was a former computer engineer.
Brin was even at Trump’s inauguration along with current CEO Sundar Pinchai.
Yes.