{"id":47422,"date":"2021-01-13T09:21:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T13:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=47422"},"modified":"2021-01-13T09:21:59","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T13:21:59","slug":"trump-permanently-removed-by-corporate-criminal-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=47422","title":{"rendered":"Trump Permanently Removed by Corporate Criminal YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>YouTube SUSPENDS Trump\u2019s channel for \u2018inciting violence,\u2019 becoming 3rd major platform after Twitter &amp; Facebook to do so<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><div id=\"attachment_47423\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47423\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/5ffe85472030275dc96f089a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" class=\"size-full wp-image-47423\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/5ffe85472030275dc96f089a.jpg 768w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/5ffe85472030275dc96f089a-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-47423\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE PHOTO: A 3D-printed Youtube logo is seen in front of displayed &#8220;Streaming service&#8221; words in this illustration taken March 24, 2020. \u00a9 REUTERS\/Dado Ruvic<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>RT.com<\/p>\n<p>YouTube has announced that it pulled new content from US President Donald Trump\u2019s verified channel and blocked it from uploading new videos for at least a week, citing violations of its policy against inciting violence.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement late on Tuesday, YouTube said that the Trump channel was issued a strike over unspecified\u00a0<em>\u201cnew content,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and pursuant to its long-standing policy,\u00a0<em>\u201cis now prevented from uploading new videos or live streams for a minimum of seven days.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?creatorScreenName=RT_com&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1349206818136973312&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fusa%2F512338-youtube-suspends-trump-channel%2F&amp;siteScreenName=RT_com&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1349206818136973312\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The video-sharing platform, which was the only major social medium still carrying Trump\u2019s message after the president was purged from both Twitter and Facebook, did not rule out the possibility of the week-long ban being extended further.<\/p>\n<p>Comments under all videos on Trump\u2019s channel have been suspended\u00a0<em>\u201cindefinitely,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0YouTube said, noting that this was a standard practice for the cases<em>\u00a0\u201cinvolving safety concerns.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The ban did not quite come out of the blue. Earlier on Tuesday, an umbrella group of civil rights organizations vowed to pressure YouTube advertisers to drop the platform if it fails to follow Twitter and Facebook\u2019s suit in blocking Trump\u2019s accounts.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe join in with our coalition partners and ask that YouTube act decisively to help stop the spread of hate by shutting Trump\u2019s account down,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), which is part of \u2018Stop Hate for Profit\u2019 campaign, said in a statement, as cited by Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Steyer, chief executive of Common Sense Media, one of the nine advocacy groups spearheading the effort, claimed that YouTube told them it was<em>\u00a0\u201cconsidering\u201d<\/em>\u00a0their request to censor Trump. He noted at the time that if the video-sharing giant failed to join Big Tech\u2019s crackdown against the president, it would pay dearly by having its ad revenues sliced as a result of the boycott.<\/p>\n<p>The groups behind \u2018Stop Hate for Profit\u2019 crusade successfully pushed for an exodus of hundreds of advertisers from Facebook last summer after CEO Mark Zuckerberg defended his decision not to censor Trump\u2019s posts taking aim at Black Lives Matter protests,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/02\/technology\/zuckerberg-defends-facebook-trump-posts.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">citing<\/a>\u00a0freedom of speech.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/512338-youtube-suspends-trump-channel\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/512338-youtube-suspends-trump-channel\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube SUSPENDS Trump\u2019s channel for \u2018inciting violence,\u2019 becoming 3rd major platform after Twitter &amp; Facebook to do so<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}