PragerU: We’re Suing YouTube To Defend Free Speech — And We’re Going To Win

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This week PragerU, a conservative not-for-profit organization founded by Dennis Prager, filed a lawsuit against Google and YouTube for “unlawfully censoring its educational videos and discriminating against its right to freedom of speech.” In an interview with The Daily Wire on Friday, PragerU CEO Marissa Streit underscored the far-reaching free speech implications of her organization’s legal action against what has become “two of the most important public forums in the world” and explained why their legal team feels “very strongly” that they can win.

Founded in 2011, PragerU describes its mission as seeking to “help millions understand the values that shaped America and provides millions of Americans and people around the world with the intellectual ammunition they need to advocate for limited government, individual responsibility and economic freedom.” Over the years, PragerU’s educational videos have garnered hundreds of millions of views, including over 250 million views in 2016 alone, according to the organization.

In a press release issued Tuesday, PragerU’s legal team — which includes Harvard’s Alan Dershowitz and former California Governor Pete Wilson and Eric George of Browne George Ross, among several others — laid out the rationale for the lawsuit, which was prompted by Google/YouTube restricting or “demonitizing” over 50 PragerU videos for what YouTube claims is “inappropriate” content for younger audiences.

The censored PragerU videos “range on various subjects presenting a conservative point of view, and include a video by noted Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz on the founding of Israel,” the press release explains. As their list of restricted videos shows, among the videos are “Why America Must Lead,” “The Ten Commandments: Do Not Murder,” “Why Did America Fight the Korean War?” and “The World’s Most Persecuted Minority: Christians.” None of the 50-plus videos, PragerU maintains, merits an “inappopriate” label as described by YouTube’s policies.

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