Exclusive: Live Action Sends Legal Challenge to Big Tech Over CensorshipLeading pro-life organization Live Action has gone through its fair share of confrontations with Big Tech, and now is taking the fight to the next level.
In early September, Live Action’s attorneys sent cease and desist letters to YouTube and Pinterest. These letters accused them of suppressing content and breaching contracts, which resulted in money loss and damaged reputations.
Speaking exclusively with NewsBusters TechWatch, Live Action leader Lila Rose spoke with enthusiasm about the upcoming legal battle. In a best case scenario where the case goes to court and they win, she hoped for Big Tech companies to actually be held to standards of “integrity and fairness†to the point where they do not interfere with information and “people can make up their own minds.â€
Free speech lawyer Harmeet Dhillon and Dhillon Law Group drafted two cease and desist letters to YouTube and Pinterest respectively for what appears to be viewpoint discrimination on their platforms. And “monetary damages and injunctive relief are available pursuant to these causes of action, and will be sought in court if this matter cannot be promptly resolved."
Pinterest is a social media platform used to create online scrapbooks out of images from across the internet. The cease and desist letter sent to it remarked how Pinterest placed Live Action on a blacklist among pornographic sites, blocking the pro-life group’s content from being shared on the platform.
This is not a "Free Speech" issue in a constitutional sense. GoogTube and Pinterest are private companies.
However if they discriminate in violation of their terms of service, that creates a contracts issue, and I believe that is the tack being taken here.
