The Stack: YouTube Settlement Free Speech Still on Trial
YouTube’s $24.5 million settlement with Donald Trump sounds big, but it doesn’t come with accountability, apology, or even policy change. In today’s show, Todd examines what this means for conservatives who’ve faced selective censorship online—whether over January 6, COVID-19, or simply questioning the mainstream narrative.
The bigger issue? It’s not just YouTube’s rules—it’s how and when they’re enforced. Platforms promise equal treatment but often wield “terms of service” against certain viewpoints while leaving others untouched. Todd explains why free speech isn’t just about what the government can restrict, but also about how Big Tech controls access to audiences.
Later, Todd breaks down the looming midnight deadline for a government shutdown. Unlike past shutdowns that used furloughs, Trump may consider reductions in force—permanent staff cuts that could reshape the bureaucratic state. If it happens, it could be one of the most consequential shutdowns in modern history.
🎧 Listen in for a candid breakdown of free speech battles, Big Tech bias, and what’s at stake if Washington doesn’t strike a deal before the clock runs out.
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The Todd Huff Show – September 30, 2025
Host: Todd Huff
Todd Huff: Yes, my friends, conservative, not bitter. Indeed. It's a pleasure to be with you here today on this Tuesday, as I say that.
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All right. What I want to talk about today. I want to talk about this settlement between YouTube and Trump. I want to talk about this because. It's easy to forget. Right. It's easy to forget where we've been over the course of the past. Well, you can say ten years. With Trump, you can say ten years, but it's easy. To forget.
Todd Huff: Because the reason it's easy to forget for a lot of people, and I'm not insulting anyone's intelligence. Maybe some. I'm kidding. But it's easy to forget what we've been through because it is a constant. Barrage. It never stops. It never ceases. It never slows. In fact, it seems as though it's only getting more intense and that there are more things that.
Are just crossing the news cycle every day. Crazy stuff. We've got a looming government shutdown, which, time permitting, I want to get to that as well, because that's an important discussion to have. But I want to talk about this YouTube thing because many of you, including myself, many of us.
Todd Huff: Have been caught in this social media. Situation where. They're silencing conservatives or Republicans, however you want to frame and discuss this, but there's a lot of that going on out there, and a lot of us. Have been caught up in the fray on that. And I have been as well.
Todd Huff: In fact, back in 2021, I've stopped. Putting. Our content on YouTube. Now we put YouTube shorts up because those, of course, are usually, I mean, they're around a minute or so.
I think a YouTube short now can be up to three minutes. I'm not sure I don't follow that stuff super closely, but I think it can be. It's more. Than 60 seconds. I do know that, but we put short clips up there to promote the show. And to reach an audience on YouTube, but I'm a little gun shy.
Todd Huff: I'm gun shy to put the whole program on YouTube. You build something on another platform. And then. You're at. Their well. Your content is there. At their own whim, they can take it down, put it up, hide. Behind their interpretation of their terms and service, and then you're basically stuck not being able to speak with your audience.
I don't like that. In fact. The best way to stay in touch with this program. The best way. It's great to download the podcast, but even then we got to deal. With Spotify and Apple. But the best way to stay in touch with us is actually to sign up for our free email newsletter.
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Todd Huff: Your thoughts and feed. That's the easiest way to communicate, and you're not going. Through. Some third party platform like YouTube. So that's a plug for the newsletter, but that's the best way to stay. Involved or directly to connect with us because of these things that we've seen on platforms. Like YouTube.
So back in 2021, I had several YouTube videos taken down. Because they referenced. January 6. If you asked any questions about January 6, if you voiced any concern about. The due process of January 6 defendants if you said anything.
Todd Huff: Besides, Trump is a dictator who tried to overthrow our government on January 6. Your video. In my estimation and from my vantage point, was at risk of being taken down. I've been remarkably consistent, as I am with most things, my friends. We've been consistent here about what we think about the January 6 situation.
There were things that happened on that day that should not have happened. The people that broke crimes, no matter who they are should face the consequences for that. There were other people that got swept into this. They had the charges. Magnified, amplified. The more defendants, the more people that the left and the media could say were part of this.
Todd Huff: Insurrection. The bigger the story to tell, the more they can make it sound like we were hanging. By a thread on January 6, 2021. And I've questioned that narrative from the very beginning. Of course. You watch the videos.
There's some troubling things, right? There's some things that people clearly needed. To be held accountable for. But then there's other things that you see and you think, what on earth? Is this person getting in trouble for this? For they're ushered in the law enforcement removed.
Todd Huff: A barricade or opened a door of some such thing and let people walk in to certain parts of the Capitol now, you might say. You should have known you shouldn't be. There. But on the other hand, you could think, It is a public building.
If the law enforcement are welcoming me in that, apparently there's a reason I can be in there. Anyway, the bottom line is you couldn't really say. Anything, raise any questions, have any concern about January 6. You had to just pair the narrative, which of course, we're never going to do on here.
Todd Huff: And so, as such, I think we had a total of 13 videos taken down. I'd have to go back. In. And take a closer look. But I remember counting 13, and I don't know that all of 13 were related to January 6. I know many of them were.
Some were possibly connected with Covid as well. That, that's right there in the middle of the Covid-19 situation and I had a lot of things to say about Covid-19. I had a lot of questions to ask about Covid-19 I asked. In very early stages.
Todd Huff: I remember talking about the efficacy of masks because I had read a study in the early days leading into Covid-19 about nine, I think it was seven or nine previous studies that were done regarding the spread. It was a flu, but of the previous seven, or nine.
I can't remember if it was seven or nine. I think it was nine, but of the previous nine studies that I had read about that was kind of in this one summary, eight of the nine studies found that wearing masks did not stop the spread of the flu virus in fact, one of them found it actually increased the spread of the virus because people.
Todd Huff: Who wore masks were more prone to touch their mask with their hands, thereby getting more germs. On their hands, thereby getting more germs on other surfaces that they touched or other people that they touched and, of course, the people who got in contact with germs that way would get the flu virus as well.
So I remember talking about those things in the early days, asking. Questions. Asking questions. Why is it 6ft? Why can I wear my mask or had to wear my mask into a restaurant. But when I sit down, I can take it off. None of this. Ever made sense to me. That's the kind of stuff.
Todd Huff: That platforms like YouTube. If they just decided they didn't want you saying those things, they would take it down. Now. On a much smaller scale, President Trump back in January of 2021. Actually had his account.
Suspended by YouTube. Citing, quote, here's the reason. They gave a risk of incitement of violence. This was in the wake of January 6 at the Capitol building. A few months later, in July of 2021, Trump sued YouTube.
Todd Huff: Meta Twitter. For alleging. Censorship. Censorship of conservatives. And. These platforms. Have settled with him, I think Twitter, if I've got that in my notes here, let me see. I think Twitter settled. I want to say, for 10 million YouTube.
Meta settled, I believe, for 25. And YouTube just settled. Just settled for 24 and a half million dollars with Trump. That's a 24 and a half million dollar payout. That means that the breakdown of that is 22 million goes to this. Is great, by the way, 22 million goes to the trust for the National Mall, which is linked to Trump's White House.
Todd Huff: Ballroom project. So they've got 22 million for that project right there and another two and. A half million. Was spent. Split, I should say, among the ACU, Naomi Wolf and other individual plaintiffs who were a part of this suit.
So in addition to that, YouTube admits to no wrongdoing. They make no changes. To their policy. They just basically say to settle this, to put an end to this here's. 24 and a half million dollars. Now pause all of this. Pause all of this.
Todd Huff: I know as. A regular, normal person in our society. Anytime you see a large settlement by a corporation for a lawsuit. It's interesting to talk about and to think about. i'm reminded of the lawsuit that mcdonald's had back in the believe.
Where someone sued. And forgetting hot coffee. They spilled hot coffee on them. They got coffee at McDonald's. I mean, I'm paraphrasing here, but they got a coffee at McDonald's. Either the lid didn't stay on, or something happened. They spilled the hot coffee on themselves.
Todd Huff: The coffee was supposedly allegedly scalding hot, and they sued McDonald's. The coffee was too hot. Seinfeld made an episode about this, you might remember. Where? Kramer. A coffee or whatever it is in his pants as he's walking into the movie theater.
He spills it on himself, he puts a balm on. Nobody told him to put the balm on all that kind of stuff. Jackie child is his attorney anyway. It was part of our pop culture to discuss that because people think, well, what do you want? Coffee supposed to be hot, but it's too hot, and I didn't put the lid on.
Todd Huff: Does the lid deformed? I just grabbed my coffee thinking that it was going to be safe to drink and safe to hold in my hand. But the next thing I know. It spills on me and burns me.
But McDonald's sued or. Excuse me. McDonald's was sued by the coffee drinker. And McDonald's settled, I think it was for. I don't know. I want to. Say it was for a million dollars? I'm not exactly sure, but it was some large. Amount of money.
Todd Huff: Now, from McDonald's perspective, McDonald's didn't necessarily assume. Any. I don't know the details of that case, but just by settling alone didn't. Claim that they did anything wrong. Basically. They were agreeing to put this to rest so that this wouldn't be in the headlines. This wouldn't be out there in the media.
All that sort of stuff, the negative pr, the negative impact that it would have on the brand. McDonald's decided it was financially worth that amount of money to get this story out of. The headlines. And so YouTube doesn't necessarily admit to any wrongdoing here. YouTube just says to put this behind us.
Todd Huff: To have Trump not talk about this. Which, of course, Trump's going to say what Trump's going to say unless there's some language. I don't think that there is, but unless there's some language to where he can't talk about it.
But just to put this behind us, let's get this. And it's worth it. To them. It's worth it to them to pay 24 and a half million dollars. This was the calculation. Or maybe they looked ahead and thought, if this actually goes to trial, This goes before a judge, we may have to cough up a lot more than that.
Todd Huff: Potentially. I don't know, but these are the sorts of conversations and calculations that are made. But YouTube did not admit to any wrongdoing. And nothing has systematically changed. At YouTube. Now, here's the thing, though. Here's the thing. As I think about this.
I don't know that anything should change with YouTube's terms of service. What the. Problem is, for my vantage point, is that YouTube selectively decides. When to basically activate their terms of service. They want you to think.
Todd Huff: In fact, they kind of talk about this as a free speech platform. But they want you to believe that they're in favor of free speech. Except when that speech is something that they decide they don't want people to hear. Now. I'm under no illusion here. It can't be easy to manage a platform like. YouTube.
I'm a huge proponent of free speech, but you immediately start thinking about things. What happens. If there's obviously people who are. Actively promoting violence or that are recruiting for terrorist organizations. I mean, obviously. You've got to do something about that.
Todd Huff: And then you start going down that path and. You think, when does it become that? I mean, I want people to say, to be able to exercise free speech. But where do I draw the lines into all of these different areas?
It becomes complicated. It certainly does. But then you see some of the things that are on some of these platforms. In fact, I'm reminded of all the people who have been cheering and applauding the death. In fact, some people even calling for the deaths of more conservatives.
Todd Huff: What was somebody tweeted? Was it Keith Overman tweeted at Scott Jennings? You're next, I believe was his first tweet in the wake of. The vile and evil assassination of Charlie Kirk, Keith Olwerman decided to get, I believe it. Was on the x platform. I could be wrong. And he said, you're next. I don't.
Believe that tweet or post on next was taken down. Elon Musk is a proponent of free speech, but. Not all speech is protected speech. And not all speech should be protected. Listen, the idea of free speech is to be able to engage in debate, to express ourselves.
Todd Huff: But if speech is being used. To organize or directly call for something that is illegal, at some point you have to say this. Is the planning of an illegal activity. This is an incitement to violence or a right. And it becomes difficult to draw the line specifically. But nonetheless, I think we all understand that the line.
Is there at some point. But that's a much different thing. Much different thing than silencing the free exchange of ideas, which is really what this ventures. Into. When it comes to Trump and conservatives who have had problems on these platforms, it is that they want to silence the idea.
Todd Huff: They'll look for excuses and ways to say that you've violated their terms of service so that they can shut you down. But the bottom line is, I don't think there's anything wrong with their terms of service. I think there's something wrong with how?
These are applied now. Little breather here as we get close to the end of this, the first segment of the program. Let's talk about something important, my friend. Let's talk about your money. That's. A very important thing.
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Todd Huff: This is important. I know this. Is a multi front battle that we're facing here in this nation today, my friends. I call it the seven pillars of propaganda that we're fighting this battle on. We've? Got the government, we've got the media. We've got big tech, we got woke business, we've got science.
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I think that's a pretty cool tool to have. My friends. All right, let's get back to this here really quickly. So many conservatives, when talking about YouTube, when talking about censorship, they'll say that YouTube broke its own rules. In fact, I would find myself in that category.
Todd Huff: Of course, it's hard. To say discard blanche. Because on a case by case basis, There are conservatives out there, there are liberals out there, there's moderates out there. Whoever maybe not moderates, but there are people who say things and violate the terms of service. All the time.
So this is not to say that no one ever violates the terms of service. But the reality is that YouTube wields this discretion that it has in its terms of service. I would say disproportionately. Or in a targeted fashion against. Conservative speech.
Todd Huff: Now, YouTube's terms, they promise equal enforcement, they promise notice of removals. They promise exceptions for newsworthy and educational content, which they call Edsa. So basically, if it's determined EDSA content, which again is educational, newsworthy content, If your content falls into that.
They are supposed to. Are supposed to. Maybe. Kind of throttle it down, make it available only to audiences over 18 and that sort of thing. But oftentimes this isn't what happens. They just arbitrarily in the case of Trump suspended his account.
Todd Huff: And Trump suspension ignored these very rules. By 2025, and I've got to wrap up here in a second. YouTube raised his takedown threshold, quietly admitting. Over enforcement, saying we've done things.
Too heavy handed over the course of time now, you could say they had a change of heart. Or you could say they realized after the election that things had changed, and instead of being encouraged by an administration to silence speech. They were dealing with an administration that was interested in making sure that they were consistently enforcing and living by their terms of service and policies.
Todd Huff: So I have to take a break. Up against the clock here, my friends. You're listening. Here to the home of conservative not bitter talk. More to say about this on the other side. Of the break. My friends back here in just a minute.
Welcome back, my friends. Talking about the YouTube settlement with President Trump. 24 and a half million dollars now. This is interesting because a lot of people don't understand this issue of free speech.
Todd Huff: And. There's, I think, a lot to wrap your head around. But one of the things that people get confused about is. Who can I guess? Police speech and who cannot. The first amendment protects us against government censoring. Our speech. The government can't come in and tell us that we can't. Say something.
Now, under the previous administration, we know for a fact. That they were pressuring some of these social media companies. Into silencing conservative messages and speech online. So the Biden administration, President bribery came in. And tried to get these companies not to allow certain messages or certain speech on their platforms.
Todd Huff: So that is just as bad. So directly silencing speech. Meaning if the government decides tomorrow to send me a notice and say I can't talk. About X or that you can't talk about why or whatever. That's a violation. Of your free speech.
You can talk about this. The government can't tell you what you can talk about now. Who can tell you what you can talk about. Well, again, you have the right. The God given right to say whatever you want to say. There's nothing anybody can do.
Todd Huff: About it, I suppose. They can physically restrain you. And put some sort of a device in your mouth that prevents you from speaking the words, but. Short of that, which that should not be legally acceptable. But short of that, there's no way to stop you from saying what you want to say.
People can try to shame you. People? Can try to intimidate you into shutting up, all that sort of stuff, but. When it comes down to it, there's nothing they can do to stop you from saying, what you want to say. It is a right. It is a right given to us by our creator.
Todd Huff: But if you want to play on certain platforms, like YouTube, You agree to what you can do on their platform. In fact, many of us don't. Take the time to read this, you sign up for an account. Set of rules that's called tos, terms of service.
And you scroll through this and you're like, man, I'm not reading all this. There's rules in there. That tells you how you can and cannot. Use their platform. How the rules of the game work. And if you violate their rules, then you can be suspended. And rightfully so. That's what you agreed to.
Todd Huff: Government can't do this. YouTube. Social media groups can't. Now, where this gets tricky is when they try to tell you that it's a free speech platform. But when they silence speech with which they. Have an opinion about. and that's not the case now There has been, in fact, what was the case? pregar you versus What is called the prager u case.
It challenged. This very notion. And it went to the. It was the 9th circuit, of course. But the 9th Circuit ruled. I thought it was in my stack here. But basically. The 9th Circuit ruled that. How YouTube markets itself really isn't the legal side of the business.
Todd Huff: This is their opinion. And so forth. And so there wasn't a contradiction at terms by saying we're in favor of free speech. When in reality they're silencing free speech. I, of course, don't really see it that way. If you're going to say that.
If you're going to advertise or promote your company in such a way. Then there has to be. I mean, those words mean something. And when you're doing the exact opposite of that. I think that that's worth at least exploring anyway, so there's. Different parts of this that could matter, but the bottom line is.
Todd Huff: The bottom line is the YouTube platform or meta or TikTok or whoever, whatever their terms, of service are. You agreed to those. Now what would happen? Blue skies is an example. I don't know their terms of service, but that's. Where all these little leftists have gone who have fled Twitter, Fledx.
Because they don't like Elon Musk and they fled that and. They've decided that they're going to go to blue sky. Now, what happens if blue sky. And I'm not saying they have this, but what if blue sky's policies are you cannot say anything disparaging or derogatory about Democrats. And you can't.
Todd Huff: Say anything complimentary about Republicans. I mean, in one sense, that's their platform. That's the rules of the game, and you can go there if that's the kind of content. Excuse me, my friends. You know, I've shared this time of year. Is when I have. This sinus problem. Every year, and I'll tell you.
That I was not doing well the other day. Sunday night, but. I. Feel remarkably better, but every once in a while I get a little bit of a tickle. There, and that interrupted me, so my apologies for that. But back to the issue at hand here.
Todd Huff: You've got rules that the platform has. But the platform, the company has an obligation to live up to those rules. That's their contract. That's their agreement with you, the end user.
And so if they start enforcing those things, Inconsistently. If they start targeting one group over another, then there's valid questions. Valid contentions about whether or not. The social media platform. Is acting in good faith or if they're trying to silence certain speech. I don't.
Todd Huff: Think there's any doubt at all. These social media platforms, they're run by, first of all, with the exception of X and Elon musk. They're run by people who are on the left. Now they've made a huge movement. Toward this idea of free speech since Trump's been in office, but that's not so much that they've had a sudden awakening to the importance of free speech.
Just that. They realize that they're in the metaphorical crosshairs and that there's different levels of scrutiny. When Biden was in office, they were again being pushed. They were being encouraged. To silence conservative messages and speech. Now that Trump's in office, the exact opposite is happening.
Todd Huff: And they don't want to poke the bear of the federal government. And all the regulation and stuff that can come and so. For my estimation, are looking like they want to play fairly with conservatives, but I don't. Know that that's the case. In fact, I'm very skeptical that that is the case, because I don't think that they ideologically had a change of heart last night.
I'll tell you something that it actually points out to me. It points out. It demonstrates to me just how quickly these things can happen, how things can change. I was told a story when I was a young man that there was a country or a city, a town in Europe, and I forget which country it was in back in the days beginning. Of World War II.
Todd Huff: Where a group of Jewish. Citizens and non jewish people has been living together for a long, long time. And then Hitler came in and invaded whichever country this town was in. And once they realized that. Hitler had overtaken.
their country within basically no time at all the non jewish people living in the town Basically acted out violently against the jewish people that lived in that town. And the only thing that changed was who the leader was. Well, of course, the leader was the guy that just invaded.
Todd Huff: He was reigning over their country. And then the metaphorical blink of an eye, these people who had coexisted and lived beside one another peacefully for a long time. Suddenly, Suddenly could no longer coexist because of what was permitted, because of what was now suddenly. Endorsed by the evils of the nazi regime. And that's how quickly things can happen.
That's how quickly things can happen. Don't suddenly think that these folks running these companies are on the side of free speech. They're. On the side of doing what's best for their platform, for their stockholders, for their personal earnings for the growth of their company. For public perception.
Todd Huff: If the tidal wave. If the narrative of the day is we're trying to fight back against platforms that silence. Free speech. You're going to find all these platforms who are going to tell you how. Much they love.
And adore free speech. And it might be a short lived experiment, my friends, but we will. Find. That when things flip back the other direction. That they'll be on the other side of this issue. That is my opinion. We're getting here to the end of this, the second segment, friends.
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I've got to take a time out here. You're listening here to conservative, not bitter talk. I'm your host, Todd Huff. Back in just a minute.
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Just because I want to talk about. This impending government shutdown, I don't know what's going to happen here. I haven't candidly followed this super closely. You know that we were out last week, but. We've been down this road a lot. We've been down this road a lot. With government shutdowns.
Todd Huff: The shutdown deadline is midnight. Midnight tonight? And. there's some changes here the way that the trump administration I would say that this is brilliant, because typically what happens. Typically what happens if there is a shutdown?
Staff are furloughed. Furloughed? This is basically just a temporary form of unpaid leave, in fact. They're being paid back pay in most instances. Their benefits remain intact, all that sort of stuff. Since 2019, their back pay actually has been guaranteed.
Todd Huff: Now, but if this shutdown happens. And I don't know. But if it does happen. Instead of being furloughed. At least some or maybe many of the employees affected by the shutdown. Would be rift. That's a reduction in force. I first heard about that term when I was a school board member back in the early 2000s.
Reduction in force is a permanent layoff. You've lost your position. They've cut. The rule. It doesn't exist anymore. There's nothing to be furloughed. From because the position. Is gone. There's no extra pay or back pay. There's none of that stuff. The workforce.
Todd Huff: Shrinks. So the past shutdowns used furloughs. This one uses. Well, Trump's going to try to use a riff. We'll see if this actually happens. We'll see. Because here's the thing. So you've got this balance, you've got this. Balance.
You've got the impoundment Control act of 1974 that's out there. That forces the president to spend appropriated funds, and you've got the fact that the chief executive officer, the CEO of the executive branch. Who's the president? He or she has discretion over. Who to hire and fire ultimately in that branch. Now.
Todd Huff: Congress has made rules and Congress has set forth or passed this impoundment Control Act. 50 years ago. But the bottom line here is that. If you don't fund a certain agency, Trump says, look, you've cut the funding. So therefore.
I'm going to cut the bureaucracy. That's where this is headed. That's where this is headed. If we get past. The midnight deadline. So in a weird way. This might be the most consequential potential shutdown that we've had, because.
Todd Huff: If Trump does that, if you get past this deadline and Trump says, we're not just furloughing the people that are part. We're going to rip these parts. Funding doesn't exist right now. What keeps Trump having.
To. Not be able to fire large numbers of people in the bureaucratic state. Is this impoundment? Act. Because if he doesn't spend all the money, he has to go back to Congress and ask them to actually rescind it from the money that they have allocated, because if they've allocated it, he has to spend it. So if they've allocated a lot of money for staffing, and he says, we need half the staff. And they say,
Todd Huff: we funded more staff you think about how crazy this is really just from a practical perspective they've done everything in their power To prevent. People from being people like Trump, from being able to actually make our government more responsible and more economical. So we're on the hook for all this. But you look at this and you. Think this is the perfect scenario for Trump to maybe.
Have some of these. Massive cuts to the bureaucracy. If this goes through and who knows? But if this goes through and he riffs positions. Now the game has changed. Now Trump can go in. With the metaphorical axe and not just the scalpel here, and he can begin to really.
Todd Huff: Change the look and the layout of. These organizations. These departments of the executive branch. So we will see where this goes. Making no predictions here, but that's where Trump is planning to take this. If we do hit the government, shut down. Tonight at midnight. Of course, lawsuits will ensue. Who knows where this is going to end? Up. If this ends up in the 9th circuit, then.
There's probably a good chance that. Trump's going to lose if this goes to the Supreme Court? I don't know. But. This is again, folks, we're in a position where we have to do everything legally. And morally and boldly as we try to fight back against this massive bureaucratic state, this beast that's been created by the lovers of big government over the past decades.
Todd Huff: But the music's telling me it's time to wrap up. My friends, I hope you have a wonderful day. Thank you for listening. SDG.
