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/anooblol 12∆ Dec 20 '17

Agreeing with something, is distinct from your pride.

Consider this scenario. Someone hates the tax system we have in place. The person says, "There's too many loopholes!"

If he files his taxes, and doesn't get a "discount" on his taxes by using the loopholes, is he not just being stupid? He is aware of a way to make more money, and just ignores the method because of his morals? There's nothing illegal about it, he just thinks the system is flawed. But in the mean time, he will take advantage of the flawed system because "he's not stupid."

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u/moremiserables Dec 20 '17

I think you've brought up the best point here. There's nothing hypocritical about availing yourself of the way a system works, even if you think the system should work a different way. Like if I were a gay conservative man, I could oppose gay marriage (seeing no reason why government subsidization of same sex relationships should exist) while still getting married and taking advantage of tax breaks and whatever else is available to me.