| Fellow Conservative,
We are suing video giant YouTube and its parent company, Google, for their systematic and discriminatory censorship of our conservative videos.
Our small, nonprofit group — PragerU — is suing the most powerful information company in the world.
And, as if that wasn't difficult enough, after filing suit, the radical Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) slapped us with their fake "haters" label!
Let me give you a little backstory on all of this…
The fact is that PragerU has reached more than 1 in 3 Americans on the Internet — over 100 million! — with our educational videos that share conservative truth and opinion.
But our reaching this many folks (particularly the fact that 2 in every 3 viewers we reach is under 34) was too much for YouTube, so they CENSORED us and BLOCKED more than 100 of our educational videos to keep them from getting into the hands of young people.
The threat here is not just against PragerU. It's against ALL of us.
And the danger is very real.
In addition to Google and YouTube, the SPLC also advises Facebook, Twitter, and many other big tech companies on which groups are "haters" and must be censored on their platforms -- or even shut down.
But by labeling PragerU as a "hate group," they lumped us in with the KKK and other extremists, which is absolutely ridiculous. When did it become "hate" to publish short videos extolling our American values, free markets, and personal liberty?
But fighting back against Google was not an easy decision for us, particularly because of the monumental financial cost.
They are, after all, one of the largest companies in the world. They have an army of high-powered attorneys at their beck and call. And they have allies like the SPLC just itching to attack our work.
That's why we're relying on concerned conservatives like you to help us cover the necessary costs of pursuing this vitally important case and winning against Google and YouTube.
While our attorneys have agreed to cap their legal fees — a huge blessing — there will be many unavoidable costs to PragerU.
This case will be tried in the court of public opinion as much as in the courtroom, and we intend to win on both fronts, whatever the cost.
However, PragerU cannot cut into our operating budget for more educational videos to fight this case.
That is why it's critical that we have your financial support, and the support of thousands of concerned conservatives, to draw a pro-American "line in the sand" against this type of ideological censorship.
This is not just PragerU's fight; this is a fight to save conservative free speech in America.
Please help with your immediate gift today.
This censorship by YouTube and Google is the same kind of censorship that we've seen on college campuses for years.
But this time, it is FAR MORE DANGEROUS, because the Internet is where the world — especially young people — go to get informed.
Can you imagine if the Left owned the Internet the way they own our universities and drive the mainstream media?
If Google and YouTube gatekeepers have all the power to censor ideas they don't like, the ramifications will be immense in 2020 and beyond, which is why we must fight back today.
Thank you, and God bless you.
For truth,
Dennis Prager |
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