[calciphus]

In the US, there are protected classes (skin color, political biases from your list, as well as others) that you cannot discriminate on. Being accused of a crime (not convicted) isn't one of those.

More importantly though, Google hasn't banned Brand, they've removed ads from his videos. Advertisers are very sensitive about where their ads show up. This is why X/Twitter has struggled so much under Musk - major companies don't want their brand next to certain kinds of content.

Not serving ads along Brand's content isn't gate keeping. It's not sending advertisers (and their dollars) to someone embroiled in a scandal. Just like how he's probably not getting lots of calls right now to host award shows, star in films, or be the face of company advertising.

Google is protecting their revenue stream, which is completely unsurprising to me.

[renegat0x0]

Thanks for explaining this