In this YouTube interview, Dennis Prager and PragerU chief marketing officer Craig Strazzeri discuss a recent warning from Facebook that the PragerU page is at risk of being unpublished for violating community standards. The violation, according to Facebook, stems from publishing videos in which doctors claim hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and zinc may benefit early‑stage COVID‑19 patients, a stance Facebook says conflicts with CDC guidelines. The conversation expands to a broader narrative of escalating censorship by major tech platforms, citing recent removals of climate‑related videos and warning of future suppression of content on topics like Black Lives Matter. Strazzeri likens the situation to historical suppression of dissent, referencing Galileo’s house arrest, and argues that the timing aligns with the 2020 election. The duo urges viewers to fight back by signing a petition, donating during PragerU’s fundraising month, and shifting consumption to PragerU’s own distribution channels—its website, mobile app, Apple TV, and Roku—thereby reducing reliance on big‑tech platforms.
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We, we at PragerU have been— I want to get the— well, I'll get the words exactly from Craig Strazzeri. He is the chief marketing officer at PragerU. What are the words so I'll know them? We have been— give me the verb from Facebook.
So the verb is threatened because our page has a big warning on the top of it and it says page is at risk of being unpublished for multiple violations of violating the community standards.
So I want people to understand the community standards are violated if you, if you publish doctors, physicians, medical doctors who argue that there might be some benefit to taking hydroxychloroquine and zinc in the early stages of a COVID positive test. That's it. That's all. That is now a violation of community standards. Which means you cannot appear on Facebook. Did I get that right?
You got that right, and it's not even debatable. We talked to the Facebook team yesterday on an hour-long phone call trying to get as much clarity as possible, and we asked this question in every which way to make sure we were clear because it sounds so absurd, so scary, so totalitarian that we just— we thought maybe we weren't hearing it right. They said, as a matter of fact, Of course you cannot post content that alleges that HCQ might be a treatment, even if it's a medical doctor who actually treated a real patient and did see success. They say that goes against the CDC's guidelines and what the CDC has to say, and Facebook goes with the CDC.
Right, I just want to remind my listeners that the left's ridicule of the church, the medieval church, for its treatment of Galileo Galileo had it better than people who dissent from the left have it today. By the way, ironically, he was under house arrest, but he lived pretty well under the house arrest. And we are under house arrest and we are suppressed. So, and this is 2020.
It's just getting worse and worse. I mean, you know, a few weeks ago we had videos removed on polar bears and the climate, and now it's on doctors with HCQ, and tomorrow it could be, you know, an opinion on Black Lives Matter or race relations in this country. It's, you know, every year it's gotten progressively worse, and as we're getting closer and closer to the election, it can't be a coincidence that it's obviously really ramping up, and it's gone from restrictions of videos and lowering of page reach to outright deletion of videos without any warning, without any explanation, until we pursue an explanation. And in Twitter's case, completely locking us out of our account for 7 days. Can't even access our account. I mean, it's just, it's just reached the point that it's time to fight back. I mean, this is what they want to do. They want to bully conservatives and silence us. And unfortunately, most conservatives and most Americans just don't have the backbone to continue to speak. Silencing works. They say it's not worth it, I might lose my job, or I might lose friends and family, so I'm not going to speak up anymore. A lot of doctors are now saying, I'm going to lose my license, I'm going to lose my practice, so I'm not going to speak up on what I'm seeing anymore. And this is exactly what they want, which is why we need to fight back more than ever.
So how do people fight back?
Well, the best way to do it, Dennis, and I know this is our fundraising month, but PragerU has a proven track record of effectively reaching young people, effectively changing minds. If people can go to PragerU.com and make a donation this month, you know, as you've mentioned, we will use the money wisely and we will reach people directly. We have to get people to join our email list. We have to get people to download our mobile app where the videos are hosted natively. This way we don't need to rely on big tech to reach people with the truth about America. So the best, the best way people can fight is to sign our petition at PragerU.com, make a donation so we can continue to lose our dependence on big tech and reach people directly through our expanded distribution of our website. Our mobile app, Apple TV app, Roku app. We have a lot of different ways we can reach people by hosting videos natively. We just need more funds to be able to do it effectively.
Well, God bless you. You're a great blessing to PragerU.
