“In light of concerns about the ongoing potential for violence, the Donald J. Trump channel will be prevented from uploading new videos or livestreams for an additional minimum of seven days,” Alphabet Inc, Google and YouTube’s parent company, said in a statement on Tuesday.
One of the more prominent voices is Sascha Baron Cohen, a British actor who gained fame – and notoriety – for comedy based on crude ethnic stereotypes. His campaign for woke censorship is apparently oblivious to the possibility the ban may eventually boomerang and apply to him as well.
Trump himself has repeatedly disavowed and condemned the Capitol unrest. In a farewell address on Tuesday – posted on the official White House YouTube channel – the outgoing president said that “all Americans were horrified by the assault on our Capitol” and called political violence “an attack on everything we cherish as Americans,” urging everyone to “unify around our shared values and rise above the partisan rancor to forge our common destiny.”
He also condemned censorship as a violation of America’s core values of free speech, arguing that the US is “not a timid nation of tame souls who need to be sheltered and protected from those with whom we disagree. That’s not who we are.”
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