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Comment by creaghpatr | Hacker News Reader

Seems like a pretty weak argument they made regarding the first amendment. Google censorship being considered a "state action"? Yeah right.

A more interesting test case is Google removing footage of elected officials speaking in a congressional session: https://www.axios.com/rand-paul-whistleblower-name-youtube-v...

It's Google's platform, they're not the stewards of reality and are free to censor whatever they want.

Freedom to censor being a legal right?

Yes because some people don't actually care about freedom, they just think it's important that the people that reduce it weren't elected.

Yes. Free speech is just as much about your right to keep your mouth shut as it is the right to open it.

Freedom of the press is a legal right recognized in the US, yes.

Yes, just like the freedom to spread fake news and twisted facts that PragerU is using.

> A more interesting test case is Google removing footage of elected officials speaking in a congressional session...

Why is that any more interesting? Is google compelled to host and preserve any and all content?

I still don't think that would be a First Amendment issue.

> Seems like a pretty weak argument they made regarding the first amendment.

Because this was a publicity stunt, not an actual attempt to redress anything through the courts.

I wonder if government involvement in the creation of Google makes the case any stronger.