YouTube on Tuesday night stated it is suspending President Donald Trump from importing new movies for one week, becoming a member of a refrain of social media corporations curbing the president’s presence on their platforms within the wake of the lethal riot that engulfed the Capitol final week.

“After cautious evaluate, and in gentle of considerations concerning the ongoing potential for violence, we eliminated new content material uploaded to the Donald J. Trump channel and issued a strike for violating our insurance policies for inciting violence,” a YouTube spokeswoman stated in an announcement. “Consequently, in accordance with our long-standing strikes system, the channel is now prevented from importing new movies or livestreams for at least seven days—which can be prolonged.”

YouTube stated it could additionally indefinitely disable feedback on the president’s channel, citing “ongoing considerations about violence.” YouTube dad or mum firm Google says on a assist web page that “content material encouraging others to commit violent acts usually are not allowed on YouTube.” It is unclear which video on Trump’s channel triggered the penalties.

The White Home did not instantly reply to a request for remark.

Social media corporations have been making an attempt to keep away from a repeat of the violence that erupted final when a mob of Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol through the vote to substantiate President-elect Joe Biden’s election victory. Twitter has completely banned Trump, whereas Fb indefinitely blocked the president’s account. Earlier than the suspension on Tuesday, YouTube had been the final main platform to not limit the president.

Whereas Fb and Twitter have been fast to take motion in opposition to Trump within the wake of the assault, YouTube took a tamer method. As a substitute of addressing Trump particularly, the corporate stated it could difficulty a strike on any account that posts movies making false claims about election fraud. Underneath YouTube’s guidelines, three strikes inside a 90-day interval ends in completely being kicked off the platform. The primary strike comes with a one-week ban from posting content material. The second strike comes with a two-week ban.

YouTube first introduced the coverage replace in opposition to election fraud claims final month however allowed a grace interval earlier than offenders have been penalized with strikes. The grace interval was set to run out on Inauguration Day on Jan. 20 however was moved up after the Capitol riot. 

Workers at Google and its dad or mum firm Alphabet have demanded the corporate boot Trump from the platform completely. In an open letter final week, Alphabet’s worker union stated YouTube’s response to the Capitol riot was “lackluster” and urged YouTube executives to take stronger motion. 

“We all know that social media has emboldened the fascist motion rising in the USA and we’re significantly cognizant that YouTube, an Alphabet product, has performed a key position on this rising risk, which has acquired an inadequate response by YouTube executives,” the union stated.

Past proscribing Trump, Silicon Valley corporations have clamped down on others inciting violence and spreading misinformation. Final week the corporate completely took down the channel of Steve Bannon’s in style Warfare Room podcast, after it violated the platform’s 3-strikes coverage. Twitter has purged over 70,000 accounts dedicated to the QAnon conspiracy principle, which baselessly contends the federal government is being run by a cabal of Devil-worshipping intercourse traffickers.

The tech giants have taken motion in opposition to Parler, a social community in style with far-right and extremist customers, which rioters used to assist plan the assault. Google and Apple suspended the platform from their app shops and Amazon lower off internet hosting the app from Amazon Internet Companies, which rents server area to different corporations. In response, Parler has sued Amazon alleging a breach of contract.