PragerU releases a five-minute video every week. As of this writing, 56 of its 320 videos are on YouTube’s restricted list. They include videos such as “Israel’s Legal Founding” (by Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz); “Why America Invaded Iraq” (by Churchill biographer Andrew Roberts); “Why Don’t Feminists Fight for Muslim Women?” (by the Somali-American women’s-rights activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali); “Are the Police Racist?” (by the Manhattan Institute’s Heather Mac Donald); and “Why Is Modern Art So Bad?” (by artist Robert Florczak).
Read More...We will soon be living in a homogenized global village out of a Huxley novel and social media will have led the way, been our soma (the drug from Huxley’s Brave New World). It is clearly already happening. We are in the midst of a Cultural Revolution without the dunce caps. And Google, the übermensch of social media, is the managing director of the operation. It is the engine that makes the whole sinister business work—Twitter, Facebook, and its own YouTube.
Read More...The current media giants’ favoring one kind of political speech over another — progressive over conservative — and even shutting down political speech that does not conform to the views of the directors, certainly skews the national political conversation in a lopsided way that conflicts with basic principles of democratic freedom of speech and what presumably should be the obligations of virtual monopolies.
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