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Hollywood is suing a Utah-based movie filtering service. Here's why they might not win.

Hollywood is suing a Utah-based movie filtering service. Here's why they might not win.

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As baseball chaplains for the Colorado Rockies and lifelong athletes, Bryan and Diane Schwartz wanted their seven kids to learn about Brooklyn Dodgers second baseman Jackie Robinson.

What they didn’t want was for their younger children to learn racist slurs like the N-word, an epithet hurled at Robinson regularly in “42,” the 2013 film about his life as the first African-American to play in the major league.

“It was an important thing for (the kids) to learn,” Diane Schwartz said. “We went to a ton of games for years and they had no idea at that age how some players had to fight just to get on the field.”

That’s when the Schwartzes heard about VidAngel, a company based in Provo, Utah that launched in 2015 and offers personalized filtering for thousands of movies available for streaming.

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