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This is the first I heard of the Prager U parental filtering and demonetization. The videos are certainly conservative, both culturally and economically, but t

This is the first I heard of the Prager U parental filtering and demonetization. The videos are certainly conservative, both culturally and economically, but the ones I've seen aren't objectionable in any way. In many ways, they are less objectionable than a lot that goes out over the AM radio bands in the U.S. Ars Technica on the story: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/prageru-sues-youtube-says-it-censors-conservative-videos/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/prageru-sues-you... Best I can find of a response from Google: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/heres-googles-response-lawsuit-accusing-youtube-censoring-conservatives-1052745 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/heres-googles-resp...

lr4444lr 9y ago
What do you think about the fact that this WSJ article though is "the first you've heard of it"? Could the story itself perhaps have been suppressed in some deliberate manner by Google?
- nickik 9y ago
  That literally the line they use every time they are talking about the 'evil internet'. They really don't like that people don't just follow them anymore, now they need to grab attention like all those internet blogs they so hate.
- creaghpatr 9y ago
  Exactly
- coolgeek 9y ago
  Actually, it's not an article, it's an Op-Ed. You'll see that if you click through.
tscs37 9y ago
Some of the PragerU videos are rather disturbing but I'd rather have them public because picking them apart with friends is quite an interesting activity. They are an amazing conversation starter on a variety of topics. I'd hate it if Google started removing them completely, despite me not even closely aligning to their ideology.
- humanrebar 9y ago
  Which ones are worth even a PG-13 rating? Keep in mind that this content is (in my estimation) fine for terrestrial radio broadcast, which are supposed to be family friendly, hence the speech codes enforced by the FCC.
- thethirdone 9y ago
  > Some of the PragerU videos are rather disturbing but I'd rather have them public because picking them apart with friends is quite an interesting activity. I hadn't watched one before, but I just watched the facism one to try picking it apart. I was expecting something considerably more in line with conspiracy theorist youtuber's I have watched. Its rather disturbing how the roughly correct facts (I'm not sure about complete correctness as I haven't read much about fascism) are quickly assembled into an argument that conservatism is "better" than liberalism.

lr4444lr 9y ago

What do you think about the fact that this WSJ article though is "the first you've heard of it"? Could the story itself perhaps have been suppressed in some deliberate manner by Google?

nickik 9y ago
That literally the line they use every time they are talking about the 'evil internet'. They really don't like that people don't just follow them anymore, now they need to grab attention like all those internet blogs they so hate.
creaghpatr 9y ago
Exactly
coolgeek 9y ago
Actually, it's not an article, it's an Op-Ed. You'll see that if you click through.

tscs37 9y ago

Some of the PragerU videos are rather disturbing but I'd rather have them public because picking them apart with friends is quite an interesting activity. They are an amazing conversation starter on a variety of topics. I'd hate it if Google started removing them completely, despite me not even closely aligning to their ideology.

humanrebar 9y ago
Which ones are worth even a PG-13 rating? Keep in mind that this content is (in my estimation) fine for terrestrial radio broadcast, which are supposed to be family friendly, hence the speech codes enforced by the FCC.
thethirdone 9y ago
> Some of the PragerU videos are rather disturbing but I'd rather have them public because picking them apart with friends is quite an interesting activity. I hadn't watched one before, but I just watched the facism one to try picking it apart. I was expecting something considerably more in line with conspiracy theorist youtuber's I have watched. Its rather disturbing how the roughly correct facts (I'm not sure about complete correctness as I haven't read much about fascism) are quickly assembled into an argument that conservatism is "better" than liberalism.