Why Are Some Conservatives Joining Big Hollywood to Attack a Small Business?

The American Conservative Union has allied with Big Hollywood to launch a scurrilous attack on a startup company that’s trying to protect conservative values. In a “Call to Congress” letter on their blog, signed by an odd mix of right-leaning organizations, they said Congress should not update the Family Movie Act of 2005 to help VidAngel, a Utah startup service that filters obscene material out of movies. VidAngel is currently being sued by several multibillion dollar movie studios, including Disney, Warner Bros., and 20th Century Fox. (Here’s VidAngel’s point-by-point rebuttal of the letter; I’m not going to focus on the back and forth but rather