Jacob Sullum’s column addressing Dennis Prager’s lawsuit against YouTube for restricting many Prager videos draws the distinction between public versus private application of the First Amendment, regardless of whether they promote themselves as a viewpoint-neutral platform. YouTube likely will win just because it is not a government agency.

The same argument would also apply to the private Honolulu Star-Advertiser, where we are presented with daily barrages of articles bashing President Donald Trump and all things conservative, with rare token news or commentary with another perspective. Most of us know this and do seek out other news online to get some balance. Unfortunately, though, too many information sources knowingly misrepresent what they are really about, which then fuels many valid complaints against the vast majority of the mainstream media for its censoring tactics and/or bias against any views they don’t agree with or that do not conform to their ideology.

John Fernie

Kailua

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