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.

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    If you’re already using ublock to skip their ads, does boycotting YouTube help? Genuine question, on the one hand you’re giving them metrics but on the other, you’re using their resources without really giving them anything.

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      Boycotting helps but it has to be done on scale which almost never happens because people are spoiled and lazy. There has to be a huge momentum.

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      For me sadly all of the creators are there and i am hoping some of them jump to peertube or something