Posted on 02/17/2022 9:14:41 AM PST by Red Badger
ANAHEIM, CA – JULY 23: Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube delivers her keynote at #VidCon at Anaheim Convention Center on July 23, 2015 in Anaheim, California. (Photo by FilmMagic/FilmMagic) The CEO of Google-owned YouTube, Susan Wojcicki, recently urged governments around the world to pass new laws aimed at canceling speech, especially on the web, that is deemed “harmful.” Wojcicki discussed her path to “more control over online speech,” which seemingly includes passing laws that have no regard for the First Amendment.
NEW – YouTube CEO Wojcicki recommends governments pass laws to gain more control over online speech, and elsewhere.pic.twitter.com/IVpOWLP6uH
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) February 16, 2022 “Our recommendation, if governments want to have more control over online speech is to pass laws to have that be very cleanly and clearly defined so that we can implement it,” Wojcicki said during an interview with the Hamburg-based broadcaster TIDETVhamburg.
Wojcicki was asked about how the platform manages to wade through numerous rules and regulations around the globe given the online nature of its content.
“We work around the globe, and you’re right, certainly there are many different laws and many different jurisdictions, and we…enforce the laws of the various jurisdictions around speech or what’s considered safe or not safe,” Wojcicki said.
The YouTube CEO talked about the company’s ‘misinformation’ position and explained that their choice to censor those who do not fall into mainstream thought will remain more “controversial” until governments can step in and criminalize their ability to speak freely.
What has been the controversial part is when there is content that would be deemed as harmful but yet is not illegal. An example of that, for example, would be COVID.
I’m not aware of there being laws by governments saying around COVID in terms of not being able to debate the efficacy of masks or where the virus came from or the right treatment or proposal but yet there was a lot of pressure and concern about us distributing misinformation that went against what was the standard and accepted medical knowledge.
And so this category of harmful but…legal has been, I think, where most of the discussion has been.
Transcript Source Big League Politics has covered politically-motivated censorship by the big tech conglomerate on numerous occasions, reporting on numerous campaigns of Google to cut the ability of political dissidents to make money by pulling their ad revenue away. We also have several exclusive reports on the company. These include their censorship of stories exposing draconian treatments of military students at the West Point Academy that arguably violate human rights as well as their purging of an online anti-mandate petition addressed to the University of California system.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Ah, yes but the government can coerce private business to conduct operations to the govt specifications and oversight.
They understand. They just don’t care. A the law can’t/won’t protect us anymore.
Muh private company!
Typical CEO. Pathologically risk averse. Wants to be told what to do, will do it and pass along any costs.
The government should shutdown youtube for sedition.
She’s a communist. There’s no reason to upload on YouTube
Big Brother is alive and well.
Time to “deplatform” youtube in red states. That will put a dent in Google’s ad revenue and cause shareholders to consider the situation.
“Susie Wokechicky”
Rumble works...................
Use Rumble, F CommieTube, problem solved
I don’t know if I’d really trust any media tech company. The entire IT industry is full of faggots, trannies, and liberals and could easily turn on anyone.
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A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism
Sickening. We are at war for our very souls....
Da. All censorship is fully okay then. Tech companies that have gained control of virtually all the communications lines are free to do anything they want. Thank you for the reminder, Comrade.
I think she’s aiming her remarks at the majority of country’s that have no free speech protections. Mostly in response to the Freedom Convoy.
i’ve been using youtube since 2006, before google acquired it. i’ve formulated an opinion anout this ahem cough wheeze woman.
“Jack Ruby her, please!”
Yes. As in Facism. Which is where we are.
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