A federal judge threw out a lawsuit Monday filed by conservative nonprofit PragerU against Google, arguing that subsidiary YouTube did not violate the First Amendment by partially censoring or limiting the organization’s YouTube videos.
Presiding U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh ruled that, inherently serving as a privacy company, Google has no obligation to equally apply its services, or in this case, its ostensible penalties.
“Defendants do not appear to be at all like, for example, a private corporation that governs and operates all municipal functions for an entire town,” Koh wrote while referencing other cases involving the First Amendment, according to Courthouse News, “or one that has been given control over a previously public sidewalk or park, or one that has effectively been delegated the task of holding and administering public elections.” [Read More]
Below is a video of Professor Alan Dershowitz that was censored by Google:
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