YouTube is cracking down on conservatives content, according to one prominent conservative.
In a radio interview with The Jewish Press, PragerU’s founder and president, Dennis Prager, explained how big tech has censored PragerU. Prager attributed it to the left’s definition of “hate speech,” saying that “Leftists — unlike liberals — do not believe in free speech for speech they differ with.” Prager also said that there “was little rhyme or reason” for YouTube and Facebook to censor, restrict, and delete PragerU’s video content.
PragerU has been embroiled in a lawsuit with YouTube alleging that the company was putting PragerU’s videos in restricted mode. Recently, PragerU discovered that Facebook was deleting and blocking nine of its videos. Facebook claimed that the censorship was “a mistake.”
Dennis Prager told The Jewish Press, “YouTube seems to target: a) videos that defend America; b) videos that defend Israel; c) videos that criticize the Islamic world; and d) videos that make the case for God and religion.” Prager also accused YouTube of “misleading the public” because the platform markets itself as an “open forum.”
YouTube has put dozens of PragerU’s videos under a restricted filter, meaning that if someone put a filter on their YouTube feed, the videos disappeared. Facebook, however, had a much bigger problem: PragerU’s videos were flagged as “hate speech” by users, then a Facebook employee moved the entire page into a “feature block.”
In reference to PragerU’s lawsuit, Prager said, “If Google, the owner of YouTube, would announce it is a left-wing advocacy group, that would make a lawsuit harder to defend.” YouTube’s sister organization, Google, was just on the Hill today meeting with conservatives to address issues of bias against the right.
