Hungary prepares digital freedom fight against Facebook and Twitter: PM Viktor Orban fears he could be banned like Trump
Hungary accuses Facebook and Twitter of censorship and suspects they could intervene in next year s parliamentary election
PM Orban fears he could be banned from social media like Trump, which could affect his chances for re-election
The government is proposing law aimed at curbing the power of big tech firms
YouTube has indefinitely suspended Donald Trump from its platform and also barred his lawyer Rudy Giuliani from being able to monetize his content.
The Google-owned social media behemoth imposed a temporary ban on Trump s channel two weeks ago, depriving his 3 million subscribers of content in light of the ongoing potential for violence.
It joined a raft of Silicon Valley heavyweights in censoring Trump for the Capitol riot over allegations that he fomented the deadly insurrection .
YouTube said said separately that Trump s lawyer Rudy Giuliani had also been taken off its Partner Program - which allows creators to make money off their videos.
The Trump Era ends, as a Tragedy
It ends with Donald Trump deflated and disgraced, less a personal tragedy than a national disaster. Without social media at his fingertips, the American president appears a silent, brooding sphinx waiting out the last days of his reign. His most vocal followers promise more violence before and after president-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on January 20.
By Kenneth Tiven in the US
“The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy, a total sham and a travesty. We should have a revolution in this country.” That was President Trump’s 2008 tweet about Mitt Romney’s election loss which foreshadowed his own 2020 failure. After two months of futile lies about how the election was rigged, Trump went for the revolution option, encouraging an insurrection with his angriest supporters attacking the US Congress. Within a week, it brought his second impeachment with a losing score of 232 to 197. It marks an ignominious exit into a very different ex
Google will stop selling political ads referencing U.S. elections across its services until at least Jan. 21, following last week s violence at the Capitol, according to an email to advertisers.