jv_coach Posted January 11, 2018 Report Share Posted January 11, 2018 As you know, PragerU’s videos are available on a number of platforms, one of which is YouTube. And as you may also know, YouTube has chosen repeatedly to restrict some of our videos for violating their “Community Guidelines.” Those guidelines are meant to protect users against viewing sexual content, violent or graphic content, and hate speech. As a PragerU viewer, you know as well as I do that our videos contain nothing even remotely close to any of these categories. To date, YouTube has restricted nearly 40 PragerU videos, addressing topics ranging from religion and freedom of speech to the history of the Korean War. More than a year ago, we filed a complaint with YouTube, hoping that there was some kind of innocent mistake. That’s when we were told by YouTube that after reviewing our videos, they determined that they were, indeed, “not appropriate for a younger audience.” Of course, we have this in writing. Think about the millions of actually inappropriate videos on YouTube, and then ask yourself, “Why is our content restricted?” Unfortunately, the answer is rather obvious, isn’t it? YouTube has restricted PragerU videos for only one reason: ideological discrimination. Of course, YouTube is owned by Google, which was founded to, ironically, “Organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”YouTube has made some of our most important videos inaccessible to the very audience PragerU seeks to reach: young people.Let me be clear: they don’t like what we teach, and so they intend to stop us from teaching it. This kind of censorship is what we have seen on college campuses for years. But it is far more dangerous in this circumstance, because the internet is where the world goes to get informed. Can you imagine if the left owned the internet the way they own our universities? Can you imagine what the world would look like if Google is allowed to continue to arbitrarily censor ideas they simply don’t agree with? Well, this is why Prager University filed suit against YouTube and Google. We are not fighting this only for PragerU—we are taking this on for America and possibly the world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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