🐱 Right-Wing YouTubers Sue Over Conspiracy Theory Content Purge Ahead of 2020 Election

Right-Wing YouTubers Sue Over Conspiracy Theory Content Purge Ahead of 2020 Election | The Recorder

The litigation is the latest to hit Big Tech as some consumers apply more pressure to moderate misinformation and hate speech on social media in the runup to the election, while others call for an end to internet companies’ protections under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

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Several YouTube creators are suing the platform and parent company Google after it banned certain QAnon and other far-right conspiracy theory content three weeks ahead of the 2020 presidential election.

The litigation is the latest to hit Big Tech as some consumers apply more pressure to moderate misinformation and hate speech on social media in the run-up to the election, while others call for an end to internet companies’ protections under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

The suit, filed Monday by M. Cris Armenta of Armenta & Sol in San Diego and surfaced by Legal Radar, claims YouTube breached the creators’ contracts and violated their constitutional rights and seeks a temporary restraining order to restore the account holders’ YouTube channels.


The complaint asserts that YouTube took the “draconian” action of deleting the videos to assuage lawmakers.

“Why did YouTube do this? To frustrate the contracts and to mollify its partner, Congress, which just days before had passed H.R. 1154, a resolution condemning the existence of conservative content—which it characterized as conspiracy theories—on the Internet,” the complaint states.

That nonbinding bipartisan resolution was approved by the House 371-18 on Oct. 2. The resolution criticized QAnon and other groups for spreading lies and for promoting anti-Semitic viewpoints. The resolution also condemned far-left groups, and condemned all acts of destruction of property and violence against police.

Several of the identified named plaintiffs have been linked to QAnon in various media reports. QAnon is a loosely affiliated group that frequently espouses unsubstantiated right-wing conspiracy theories.

In addition to First Amendment violations, the lawsuit filed Monday asserts that YouTube breached its terms of service with the content creators by taking down the videos without notice.

“In this action, Plaintiffs seek immediate and emergency relief from Defendants’ breaches of their contract with Plaintiffs, which have worked to completely deny Plaintiffs the benefits of the contracts and services for which they bargained, to obliterate Plaintiffs’ livelihoods, and to deprive both Plaintiffs and their subscribers of their First Amendment rights,” Armenta wrote. “Given that the Presidential election is approaching on November 3 and that Plaintiffs routinely provide news, commentary and information about issues that are directly relevant to that election, Plaintiffs seek immediate and emergency relief by way of a Temporary Restraining Order and/or Injunction to avoid irreparable harm that cannot be cured or later resolved through monetary damages alone.”

In the last few years, YouTube has faced lawsuits over its content moderation from both sides of the political spectrum. In separate lawsuits, bicoastal litigation boutique Browne George Ross argued that YouTube discriminated against its clients Prager University, a conservative nonprofit media company, and LGBTQ news channel GlitterBombTV.com.

 

[Eris!]

Right but that doesn't mean they're pedos

Bruh

There probably is a higher percentage of kiddy fiddlers in powerful political positions than the normal population; but that's likely a product of positions of power attracting predatory individuals (much like the church did.) rather than some conspiracy of pedo's. Are some of them working together, probably; but that's again a product of predatory people rather than some endemic infestation. Doesn't make it any less bad; but it's not a sign that the entire structure is rotten.

I find the prospect that the entire structure to be a more reasonable default position than that it is not. Please present evidence that it is not rotten, because otherwise I will assume as a default that it is.

With politicians I assume the worst possible case until proven otherwise. They have a presumption of guilt.
Hillary Clinton rapes and eats people. I assume this as a given.

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

It's not impossible to prove a negative. Like at all. It's harder sure; but not impossible. Hell, the statement 'It's impossible to prove a negative' is in of itself a negative.

Right, but how would you prove someone is not a pedophile? Other than a lack of evidence, there's really no way it could be proven

 

[Eris!]

Right, but how would you prove someone is not a pedophile? Other than a lack of evidence, there's really no way it could be proven

It's perfectly logically possible to prove innocence. It's done all the time in court.

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

It's perfectly logically possible to prove innocence. It's done all the time in court.

No it's not. Court of law is "not guilty", as in, a reasonable doubt. I know you're autistic so I know you're gonna give an autistic answer, but how would you prove someone is not a pedophile?

 

[BaronDaRolla]

It's impossible to prove a negative. QAnon and anyone who believes it is legit retarded, so congrats

The fact you somehow believe elites are saints is either highly impressive in your naive optimism, or depressing in the supreme retardation you experience.
The elite abuse their power; this is a fact as old as hierarchies have existed. To deny it is to make flat earthers scientific minds.
Also, you're wrong. flat-earthism has claimed lives like QAnon has. Rocket man is picture proof of this fact.
For your sake and ours, please shut the fuck up. Your a rabid lefty and hate everyone here, we get it. now be like the ankle-biter and fuck off.

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

The fact you somehow believe elites are saints is either highly impressive in your naive optimism, or depressing in the supreme retardation you experience.
The elite abuse their power; this is a fact as old as hierarchies have existed. To deny it is to make flat earthers scientific minds.
Also, you're wrong. flat-earthism has claimed lives like QAnon has. Rocket man is picture proof of this fact.
For your sake and ours, please shut the fuck up. Your a rabid lefty and hate everyone here, we get it. now be like the ankle-biter and fuck off.

I never said they were saints, but that doesn't mean they're pedos, dipshit. Another QAnon tard. Go back to /pol/ where you can be a dumbass anonymously

 

[Eris!]

No it's not. Court of law is "not guilty", as in, a reasonable doubt. I know you're autistic so I know you're gonna give an autistic answer, but how would you prove someone is not a pedophile?

Innocence is proved quite often in court. It's called having an alibi, or other evidence that makes the accusation impossible. Usually this is done way before you're charged, but it happens in court too.

I never said they were saints, but that doesn't mean they're pedos, dipshit.

It's kinda one or the other my dude.

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

Innocence is proved quite often in court. It's called having an alibi, or other evidence that makes the accusation impossible. Usually this is done way before you're charged, but it happens in court too.

It's kinda one or the other my dude.

How is it one or the other? I know you're autistic so you see everything in black and white, but there's a huge difference between abusing power and being a pedo. Abusing power by charging personal stuff to your state account is abuse of power, but is a far cry from being a pedo.

To show you how hard it is to prove a negative, I am accusing you of having sex with cats. Prove to me that you don't have sex with cats.

 

[BaronDaRolla]

I never said they were saints, but that doesn't mean they're pedos, dipshit. Another QAnon tard. Go back to /pol/ where you can be a dumbass anonymously

It's a numbers game really. The elite are a group of people. Some are statistically going to be rotten. Those rotten people will have degenerate fetishes. Those rotten, degenerate people have the power to act on those fetishes. Do you want to gamble on the chances that none of those fetishes involve pedophilia? I won't.
If you wish to refute this line of logic, then by all means, i'm waiting... but I expect a personal attack, a deflection, and simpering. But please. Prove me wrong.

 

[Eris!]

To show you how hard it is to prove a negative, I am accusing you of having sex with cats. Prove to me that you don't have sex with cats.

I don't own any cats, have never mistreated a cat, and actively oppose catfuckers.

How is it one or the other? I know you're autistic so you see everything in black and white, but there's a huge difference between abusing power and being a pedo. Abusing power by charging personal stuff to your state account is abuse of power, but is a far cry from being a pedo.

lmao what are they gonna do just abuse their power a little bit? If they're doing it, they're gonna go all the way.

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

I don't own any cats, have never mistreated a cat, and actively oppose catfuckers.


lmao what are they gonna do just abuse their power a little bit? If they're doing it, they're gonna go all the way.

Prove that you never abused a cat. You still haven't proven it. Why do you fuck cats?

No, there's been many politicians that have embezzled funds. That doesn't mean they've diddled kids. Most people have no desire to diddle kids. What makes you think people have this desire? Are you hiding something from us?

 

[Eris!]

It's a numbers game really. The elite are a group of people. Some are statistically going to be rotten. Those rotten people will have degenerate fetishes. Those rotten, degenerate people have the power to act on those fetishes. Do you want to gamble on the chances that none of those fetishes involve pedophilia? I won't.
If you wish to refute this line of logic, then by all means, i'm waiting... but I expect a personal attack, a deflection, and simpering. But please. Prove me wrong.

You could convince me an elite is not a pedophile. You could never convince me the elite are not pedophiles. They must be, it would be insane if they weren't. It would just be too ludicrous a proposition for me to even entertain as a possibility.

Most people have no desire to diddle kids. What makes you think people have this desire? Are you hiding something from us?

Most people have no desire to be politicians. These two things directly relate. The powermad are powermad, it is not limited merely to politics.

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

It's a numbers game really. The elite are a group of people. Some are statistically going to be rotten. Those rotten people will have degenerate fetishes. Those rotten, degenerate people have the power to act on those fetishes. Do you want to gamble on the chances that none of those fetishes involve pedophilia? I won't.
If you wish to refute this line of logic, then by all means, i'm waiting... but I expect a personal attack, a deflection, and simpering. But please. Prove me wrong.

I am sure there is at least one elite that has diddled kids, but that doesn't mean all, or even a decent number, are. There's zero evidence to back up the claim, yet you are a QAnon tard so I know I am arguing with an idiot here.

 

[BaronDaRolla]

You could convince me an elite is not a pedophile. You could never convince me the elite are not pedophiles. They must be, it would be insane if they weren't. It would just be too ludicrous a proposition for me to even entertain as a possibility.

The fact is that such a fetish is not common parlance. Funny enough, the list of degenerate fetishes is large enough that it'd be hard to pin down the common fetish of the elite. However, I wouldn't gamble that there are only a few pedos. I wouldn't gamble on the number or estimate at all.
The elite are laced in secrecy for a reason. They know if we knew how many practiced x fetish we'd burn the whole system to the ground.

 

[Eris!]

I am sure there is at least one elite that has diddled kids, but that doesn't mean all, or even a decent number, are. There's zero evidence to back up the claim, yet you are a QAnon tard so I know I am arguing with an idiot here.

I literally don't need any evidence. I don't need any evidence that people who like pizza eat pizza, or that people who fear heights don't go snowboarding.
People who enjoy exercising power over others are gonna be pedophiles.

 

[BaronDaRolla]

I am sure there is at least one elite that has diddled kids, but that doesn't mean all, or even a decent number, are. There's zero evidence to back up the claim, yet you are a QAnon tard so I know I am arguing with an idiot here.

Then you must be to because you effectively said my statement with a different conclusion. Good job einstein.

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

I literally don't need any evidence. I don't need any evidence that people who like pizza eat pizza, or that people who fear heights don't go snowboarding.
People who enjoy exercising power over others are gonna be pedophiles.

You still haven't proven you don't diddle cats. Why do you diddle cats, sicko?

Then you must be to because you effectively said my statement with a different conclusion. Good job einstein.

No, you said the majority were probably and possibly pedos. There's a big difference there.

 

[Eris!]

You still haven't proven you don't diddle cats. Why do you diddle cats, sicko?

Sorry, I don't entertain bad faith arguments which are deliberately silly.
I don't really care if they have no means to prove their innocence to me. That's their problem.

 

[Hollywood Hulk Hogan]

Sorry, I don't entertain bad faith arguments which are deliberately silly.

Translation: you can't prove that you don't diddle cats. It's the same idea. How the hell would one prove that "the elite" are not pedos? What reasonable amount of evidence would there be that would persuade you of that?

You still haven't proven you don't diddle cats, you sick fuck.

 

[Eris!]

Translation: you can't prove that you don't diddle cats. It's the same idea. How the hell would one prove that "the elite" are not pedos? What reasonable amount of evidence would there be that would persuade you of that?

You literally cannot persuade me of that, because it's absurd. I will not consider it.