No Decision Yet on RFK Jr. Request for Temporary Restraining Order Against YouTube, Google

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on Monday heard arguments addressing a request for a temporary restraining order filed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. against YouTube and its parent company, Google.

Kennedy, a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president and chairman on leave of Children’s Health Defense, is asking the court to temporarily bar the defendants from using either their “vaccine misinformation policy” or their “COVID-19 medical misinformation policy” to remove videos of Kennedy from YouTube.

Kennedy filed the request on Aug. 9, a week after he sued the tech giants, alleging YouTube violated his First Amendment rights by engaging in a “censorship campaign,” which included removing videos of his speech at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire and interviews he did with clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson and podcaster Joe Rogan.