
2021 Free Expression Awards Highlight: Susan Wojcicki
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Highlight clip from the 2021 Free Expression Awards honoring YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki. The video became notable for its overwhelmingly negative like/dislike ratio.
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Cited as an ironic example of YouTube receiving a free expression award, and as a showcase of the public dislike count before it was hidden.
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Here[1] is the video. At the time of me writing this comment, the ratio is 53 likes to 15,486 dislikes. [1]: [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗In the video, she calls speech they don’t agree with “censorship” and actual censorship “freedom of expression”. If this isn’t a prime example of doublespeak I don’t know what is. [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗Previously YouTube incompetently censored discussion of lab leak theory, allowing misinformation to fester on the platform. [1] YouTube's Trust and Safety team are actively malicious at this point. This was no error. They regularly censor correct information based on the current thinking among the orthodoxy, which I highly suspect is operating in a cartel manner to censor like-minded topics (hence why FB also sloppily censored the same topic). Don't worry though, YouTube has been awarded a Free Expression Award from an organization sponsored by... YouTube. [2] [1] [LINK] [2] [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗Susan Wojcicki was awarded a "Free Expression Award" from a company sponsored by... YouTube. [1] This isn't surprising. YouTube is the home of censorship, and any proclamations of "free speech" are merely corporate marketing. I don't know how software engineers at YouTube justify to themselves that they're working for a free speech company, given they can easily see the code that "deboosts" content for political reasons, and other censorship. [1] [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗Rewind is kind of old news. Now that time YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki received a Free Expression Award from an organisation sponsored by YouTube[1] is more recent and something else completely, ratio-wise. Currently at 56,502 dislikes vs 226 likes. Which is a ratio of over 250×. [1]: [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗it is unacceptable that goodthink content that promotes correct opinions gets ratioed and ridiculed. the writing was on the wall for a while. this was probably the final nail in the coffin: [VIDEO] kudos to our billionaire overlords, celebrities and their first world cosmopolitan yuppie congregation for looking out for us unwashed, uneducated plebeians. without their guidance, we'd be lost.
Read original comment ↗the writing was on the wall for a while. this was probably the final nail in the coffin: [VIDEO] go glimpse it in all its glory before it gets memoryholed
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