Posted on 02/18/2024 7:34:50 AM PST by Red Badger
The 19-year-old son of former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki was found deceased at the University of California, Berkeley, on Tuesday. His grandmother, Esther Wojcicki, confirmed the devastating news in a Facebook post.
The student, identified as Marco Troper, was discovered unresponsive in his dorm at the Clark Kerr Campus, a student housing complex, around 4:23 p.m. local time. Despite immediate life-saving attempts by the Berkeley Fire Department, Troper was pronounced dead at the scene.
The University of California Police Department (UCPD) stated that there were no signs of foul play discovered, according to the New York Post.
The heartbroken grandmother took to Facebook to express her grief:
Tragedy hit my family yesterday. My beloved grandson Marco Troper, age 19 passed away yesterday. Our family is devastated beyond comprehension.
Marco was the most kind, loving, smart, fun and beautiful human being. He was just getting starting on his second semester of his freshman year at UC Berkeley majoring in math and was truly loving it.
He had a strong community of friends from his dorm at Stern Hall and his fraternity Zeta Psi and was thriving academically. At home, he would tell us endless stories of his life and friends at Berkeley.
Marco’s life was cut too short. And we are all devastated, thinking about all the opportunities and life experiences that he will miss and we will miss together.
Marco, we all love you and miss you more than you will ever know.
Details surrounding the cause of Marco’s death remain unclear. Still, Esther Wojcicki suggested to SF Gate that she suspects a drug overdose took her grandson’s life.
The family awaits the toxicology report to confirm the specifics.
“He ingested a drug, and we don’t know what was in it,” she said. “One thing we do know, it was a drug.”
“We want to prevent this from happening to any other family,” Esther Wojcicki added.
Susan Wojcicki was the Youtube CEO from 2014 to 2023. She resigned the day after the House GOP issued subpoenas for Big Tech CEOs at Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft. While YouTube is a subsidiary of Alphabet, Wojcicki was not listed on the list of subpoenaed CEOs.
Under Wojcicki’s leadership, she urged more governments to enact speech laws to crack down on ‘unapproved’ online speech.
“Our recommendations for governments who want to have more control over online speech is to pass laws to have that very cleanly and clearly define such that we can implement it. There are times we see the laws being implemented or being suggested that they are not very clean or possible for us to cleanly interpret them. And we’ve also seen laws just passed for the internet as opposed to for all speech. And I do think that’s a dangerous area when we start to get in and say oh sure you can say something like this for a magazine or on TV but you can’t say it on the internet,” she said.
In April 2020, Wojcicki announced that anything said about COVID that contradicted the WHO talking points would be taken down. Now we know that the WHO, like the CDC, was lying all along.
Wojcicki was also responsible for the Infowars YouTube account being suspended again.
Wojcicki said that “a commitment to openness is not easy. It sometimes means leaving up content that is outside the mainstream, controversial or even offensive. But I believe that hearing a broad range of perspectives ultimately makes us a stronger and more informed society, even if we disagree with some of those views.”
This led to InfoWars’ War Room host Owen Shroyer making a new YouTube account, as her position should also apply to him.
In a sarcastic video, Shroyer announced that YouTube had announced that their InfoWars ban is lifted, of course, it wasn’t really. Still, based on Wojcicki’s statement, the team at InfoWars promptly made a new War Room account.
The account remained active overnight, with the video he posted getting widely shared across other platforms. The account was promptly removed when Vice News decided to write about it. An update to their article seems to humble-brag about their role in the censorship: “Shortly after this story was published, YouTube deleted Infowars’ War Room channel,” it says.
I’m sorry for a mother losing a son but drugs are a part that leftist lifestyle.
“He ingested a drug, and we don’t know what was in it,” she said. “One thing we do know, it was a drug.”
I suspect there’s more to this...
Fentanyl?
One death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic.
And there are few places more “leftist” than a UC Berkely dorm.
From another source “ His aunt, Susan’s sister Anne Wojcicki, co-founded the genetic testing company 23andMe and is its CEO.”
Nope, nope, nope, doesn’t sound a bit suspicious...
yes, and I bet there’s more than one out there in Berkely ingesting a drug.
And more deaths will be or have been.
But still, the pain of a mother losing her son is terrible.
Under Wojcicki’s [Youtube CEO] leadership, she urged more governments to enact speech laws to crack down on ‘unapproved’ online speech.
That doesn't help contribute to any sympathy.
A young, good looking kid with the whole world in front of him, along with financial security guaranteed. He could have had a great future. Very sad.
All three of her daughters were scam artists so perhaps.
Gosh that’s interesting.
A kid doing weird chemicals gets into UCB.
That’s a place with an 8% acceptance rate.
You need something like a 4.6 GPA, 8-11 AP courses, a heart rending essay about all the trials and tribulations you overcame as a poor black trans hermaphrodite, and three internet businesses you started as a pre-teen.
So how does the son of a fabulously wealthy owner of an internet rip-off scam like YouTube get into that place?
Easy. Be part of The Gang. Then you can be a moron and do life threatening opioids when you’re supposed to be doing your diffEq homework.
From now on are we going to see “identified as” whenever a person is introduced in a news article?
Was this part of the war on math?
:-)
“All three of her daughters were scam artists so perhaps.”
I have every reason to believe you (based on the little I know of her and her husband and their backgrounds), but might you have a link to something I can peruse, as it sounds ‘juicy’.
Karma.
Our sins affect our children.
I am sorry for the man’s life to be cut short but I am not sorry for tragedy to strike the enemies of freedom. Heaven knows it happens to the good guys often enough.
I was surprised when they said 30% of Harvard’s incoming class are legacies. I imagine similar numbers for Berkeley. If it weren’t for legacies the percentage of each class in major colleges that is white would be miniscule
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