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PRAGER UNIVERSITY V. GOOGLE (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2020 OP
Good for the 9th Circuit. Laelth Feb 2020 #1
OWNED!!! Initech Feb 2020 #2
Not sure about the back story here... Wounded Bear Feb 2020 #3
"Trump U pretended to be a university, and so do we!" struggle4progress Feb 2020 #5
To my thinking, knowing that I can access Google/YouTube at any time without an account or abqtommy Feb 2020 #4
No, by "public," Prager is trying to claim that Google and YouTube are acting as mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2020 #6
Thanks for the clarification. There's so much to learn and so little time! abqtommy Feb 2020 #7

Laelth

(32,017 posts)
1. Good for the 9th Circuit.
Wed Feb 26, 2020, 01:18 PM
Feb 2020

In essence, I agree. Sooner or later, though, our big internet-tech companies are going to have to fall under the "common carrier" doctrine, and then they will be subject to judicial review as quasi-government agencies. No telling how long that will take.



Thanks for posting.

-Laelth

Wounded Bear

(58,670 posts)
3. Not sure about the back story here...
Wed Feb 26, 2020, 03:03 PM
Feb 2020

I know a RWer posted a Prager U video "debunking" the party flip on racism and the Southern Strategy on another board recently, so I get the idea that Prager U is a RW propaganda mill. Am I wrong?

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
4. To my thinking, knowing that I can access Google/YouTube at any time without an account or
Wed Feb 26, 2020, 03:11 PM
Feb 2020

password indicates very strongly that it's a Public Forum, and therefore the courts decision is wrong.
The rest of it I'm not prepared to comment on.

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,516 posts)
6. No, by "public," Prager is trying to claim that Google and YouTube are acting as
Wed Feb 26, 2020, 03:32 PM
Feb 2020

agents of the government. The court is saying that they are privately owned.

Had they been considered public in the government sense, then 1A would have applied. They'd have to allow all content. Being private, they can cull videos or content as they see fit.

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