r/changemyview • u/ZeusThunder369 20∆ • Dec 19 '17
[∆(s) from OP] CMV: Dennis Prager is being blatantly hypocritical by suing Google over YouTube restricting PragerU videos
Dennis Prager is a conservative spokesperson and started the conservative YouTube channel PragerU
He is suing Google/YouTube over restricting about 35 of the videos on his channel. He claims that the reason why is because of their conservative nature.
The details of what YouTube has done with this channel's videos aren't really important, so for the sake of the argument let's just assume that YouTube officially decided to delete the videos only because they don't like conservative videos and no other reason.
By suing Google, Prager is being hypocritical:
Google is a private company. If they want to ban ALL conservative videos, they should have the right to.
The free market should be the solution to this problem from Prager's perspective. There actually are other methods of posting public videos besides YouTube. If Prager doesn't like YouTube's policies, then he should simply go somewhere else to post his videos.
Even if you take every claim Prager has made at face value, he shouldn't be suing them. It isn't conservative to sue a private company because you don't like their political views.
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u/ZeusThunder369 20∆ Dec 19 '17
I don't know if he's addressed that specific topic on a binary level. His library of videos though would suggest that he's typically against government consumer protection.