PragerU, the conservative digital media organization from Dennis
Prager, is suing YouTube and its parent Google over alleged censorship
of their videos.
According to the
Wall Street Journal,
the lawsuit, which was filed on Monday, “says YouTube’s more than 30
million visitors a day make the site so elemental to free speech in the
digital age that it should be treated as a public forum.”
“The suit argues the site must use the ‘laws governing free speech,’
not its own discretion, to make decisions about what to censor,” they
reported, adding that PragerU “alleges that by limiting access to some
of its videos without clear criteria YouTube is infringing on PragerU’s
First Amendment rights.”
YouTube has repeatedly
censored PragerU on their platform,
labeling political videos as “restricted” adult content and even
removing a video of “a Muslim man describing how he was raised to be anti-Semitic,” branding the video as “hate speech.”
After being criticized for their censorship of PragerU videos, YouTube
blamed “community flagging.”
As previously
reported
by Breitbart News, “PragerU, which is short for Prager University,
produces short, concise, graphics-based videos for young people which
are broadly based on Judeo-Christian values and conservatism, but
features videos from the likes of feminist academic Christina Hoff
Summers, human rights activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and Taleeb Starkes,
author of
Black Lies Matter.”
Earlier this year, PragerU also
published a video of liberal commentator and former member of The Young Turks, Dave Rubin, explaining why he left the political left.
Other conservative channels on YouTube have also faced routine
censorship, including Legal Insurrection, which was suspended before
being
reinstated following coverage from Breitbart News.
