YouTube Defeats Suit Over Ending Anti-Vaccine Doctor’s Account

A anti-Covid-19 vaccines doctor lost his bid to revive a lawsuit accusing YouTube LLC of violating their agreement by terminating his account without advance notice, a federal appeals court said Wednesday.

Joseph Mercola and his corporation, Mercola.com LLC, didn’t raise a plausible argument that the contract’s modification clause required the video-sharing site tell him before denying him access, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said in an unpublished opinion.

The modification clause says that “YouTube will provide reasonable advance notice of any material modifications to this Agreement,” the court said. Mercola argued that this provision required the ...