Pro-Life Group Sends Cease-and-Desist Letters to YouTube, Pinterest Alleging Censorship

One of the nation’s leading pro-life organizations is fighting YouTube and Pinterest over alleged discrimination against the group’s anti-abortion posts on both platforms.

The group, Live Action, announced Friday that its attorneys had sent cease and-desist letters to YouTube and Pinterest dated August 21, demanding the platforms address its allegations or contact its lawyers by August 30.

Live Action has accused YouTube of failing to publish its video ads, breach of contract, and causing it to suffer financial losses. Pinterest banned Live Action from its platform in June, claiming its “pro-life educational and political content” qualified as “pornographic.” Live Action’s lawyers wrote in their letter that the decision smacked of “kneejerk reactions and poorly thought-out pretexts for speech suppression.”