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The Last Stand for Filtering: How to Save VidAngel

The year 2016 was a bit of a letdown to say the least.  The last week of 2016 wasn’t very friendly either, with such notable deaths as George Michaels, mother and daughter duo Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, and one very close to my heart, legendary BYU football coach LaVell Edwards.  Just when things couldn’t get any worse, another life was deemed in critical condition: that of the Utah based movie-filtering VidAngel. Don't let this happen! Launched in 2014, VidAngel provided hundreds of big time movies alongside with filters that the viewer would select before streaming the movie of their choice.  According to their website, VidAngel was built on the two beliefs that one, movies can change lives for the better and two, people “ should have the personal freedom to watch [movies] in the way they choose”. 1 Because of these two founding beliefs, VidAngel allows the viewer to filter out of their movies what they don’t want to see, whether that be full frontal nu...