LGBT+ Groups Creating Videos For Youtube Are Suing For Discrimination
Five LBGT+ channels on youtube have joined together and have sued Youtube, the Google-owned website, for discrimination claiming it is suppressing their contents.
The discrimination alleged in the lawsuit is “embedded in the business model” of YouTube, said Peter Obstler, the lead attorney for the plaintiffs and he adds: “By controlling an estimated 95 percent of the public video communications that occur in the world, Google and YouTube wield unparalleled power and unfettered discretion to apply viewpoint-based content policies in a way that permits them to pick winners and losers.”
The five LGBT+ video creators, filed a suit in federal court in San Jose, claiming that YouTube deploys “unlawful content regulation, distribution, and monetization practices that stigmatize, restrict, block, demonetize, and financially harm the LGBT Plaintiffs and the greater LGBT Community.”
Youtube is by far the world’s largest video streaming site with over 2 billion monthly viewers.
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