"Socketh it unto them."
Posted on 10/24/2017 10:33:56 AM PDT by EveningStar
That’s where Google is headquartered IIRC.
I wish Prager a big win, not only for him and PragerU, but all of America. This censoring of conservative messaging is just plain wrong. There are limits to what a private company should be able to do when it has a near monopoly on a thing as big as YouTube. I’d like to see some kind of private, non profit, non biased, watch dog oversight on YouTube and Google in general.
It has gotten bigger and more powerful than many countries. In fact it is a force for many country’s to reckon with these days and not in a good way.
Watched this one and about 5 or 6 that followed.
Thanks for posting, S.
Prayer needs to respect that YouTube is private property. He can start a hosting service if he wants.
The complaint is that a particular group is being sensored for their “political” views, not all groups. And how is the government involved? It should bubble up to the Supremes, after the 9th circus applies their stupid emotional reasoning.
The argument will be that some of the major internet players are so dominant that they have become the electronic equivalent of a Common Carrier or a utility.
That if they are able to restrict access, to discriminate in whom they allow access, that it will have the same deleterious effect that would occur if Common Carriers in transportation were able to deny access to those who must rely on them for commerce.
The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 is one of the early laws that addressed this problem, at that time in regard to railroads, which were the overwhelmingly dominant mode of transportation. RRs could make or break companies when they had the power of denying access at will.
FReeper LS (Larry Schweikart) has a couple videos there.
These DIPSHITS at Goebbels (er Google) and FB are JUST crying out to be declared PUBLIC UTILITIES and put under some form of national government control. A better alternative is for conservatives to crank up COMPETING operations and draw off all their conservative members.
All have made interesting and compelling arguments each with its own merits. This is very troubling and either way it goes no one can doubt its profound impacts and consequences for such decisions. If YouTube becomes the first FR and others of our like could be next
They have always been a source but never credible.
I would not want to have to go to San Francisco to pursue it, but I would love--as a trial lawyer--to depose the self-righteous clowns, running Google, in the Prager U case. There is nothing a trial lawyer enjoys more that coming up against a witness, enthralled with their own importance, but unaware of their basic incompetence.
If the Court lets the Prager lawyers go forward, they should have a good bit of fun with the self-righteous poseurs.
FR wouldn’t be affected because it’s a content provider rather than a carrier. In YouTube terms FR is the video, whereas YouTube is the service backbone.
‘Market power’ is part of monopoly law, market power gives firms the ability to engage in anti-competitive behavior. YouTube has market power in the internet video domain. PragerU will be arguing that YouTube has become in effect a utility, and that they are using their market power to suppress ideas that their management disagrees with.
Maybe that's why he chose a different law firm rather than have you represent him...............
Software patents and slap suits create a barrier for new competition. Either fix it so we have more competition or fix it so it is just a platform, not a censor. These barriers don’t prevent competition to FR, but it does limit competition to tech giants.
And I'm sure that won't be his last mistake.
I’ve enjoyed Dennis for a long time. Love his thoughtful and reasoned approach to taking apart a problem.
How hard is it to make your own website? And demand play the videos on them?
...dont big companies and schools play their own videos? Who needs google to do that anymore?
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