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“While it is disappointing that it took a Trump-incited attack on our Capitol to get here, it appears that all the major platforms are finally beginning to step up and take this important issue seriously and that policymakers and the public are committed to holding them accountable, he said. “Our democratic norms and institutions, not to mention our kids’ future, depend on it.”
boycott of Facebook over the summer following the death of George Floyd under the knee of a white police officer.
Some 1,100 advertisers stopped buying ads on Facebook and Instagram during the month of July, with a few advertisers pulling their spending through the end of the year.
Until Tuesday night, YouTube was the lone holdout. Facebook and its app Instagram, Twitter and Snap blocked Trump after he incited supporters to storm the Capitol last week.
YouTube says it issued a “strike” against Trump’s channel. With the first strike, Trump’s YouTube channel is temporarily prevented from uploading new videos or live streams for at least seven days.
If, in a 90-day period, the channel receives a second strike, it will receive a two-week suspension. A third strike results in the channel being permanently removed.
YouTube says it makes no exceptions for public figures and has previously removed videos from Trump’s channel for violating its policies.
“I am not sure what is more distressing, the fact that platforms like Facebook have waited four years to so-called ‘act’, now that Trump is almost out of office, or that YouTube has still failed to ban Trump,” Steyer said. “Either way you look at it, these platforms are far too often on the wrong side of history and now the time has come to regulate them.”
Trump had a harsh message of his own for tech companies Tuesday.
“I think that Big Tech is doing a horrible thing for our country and to our country, and I believe it’s going to be a catastrophic mistake for them. They’re dividing and divisive,” Trump told reporters.