Civil Rights
Oct. 26, 2017
Are courts ready to declare social media a public square?
Prager University has accused YouTube of violating its First Amendment rights by restricting access to innocuous education videos and preventing it from running ads in its videos.
With a billion monthly users watching hundreds of millions of hours of videos for free every day, YouTube Inc. is one of the largest public forums in the world.
This is the central theory behind a lawsuit filed earlier this week against YouTube and its parent company Google Inc. The filer, Prager University, accused YouTube of violating its First Amendment rights by restricting access to innocuous educational videos and preventing ...
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