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.
My guess... either Fentanyl OD or the VAX!
“...discovered unresponsive in his dorm at the Clark Kerr Campus...”
I’m just barely old enough to have heard the phrase “Freedom Under Clark Kerr,” or at least read about it.
I am sorry for her loss. That must be awful to go through.
The statement by the grandmother that it was probably drugs suggests the family knew he had an ongoing drug problem.
Some south-of-the-border fentanyl-laced dope is my guess
She worked very hard to create this kind of world. Silicon Valley is awash in dope. And it bit her in the ass. Will she learn anything? Nope, she’ll double down.
Yep, going way back. It’s why the Nancy Reagan campaign war on drugs slogan was ‘just say no’.
But the social life of kids, and famously back in the sixties, was taking drugs. The drugs usually were less dangerous but now they are something really dangerous.
Of course taking any drug overdosed will kill you.
The young do not recognize they can die.
“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 don’t dare call them a publisher.
Yes, which is why I said what I did.
Brought to our children through our own front doors by democrats.
Umm, I know what was in it.
Occam’s Razor is all one needs.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=fentanyl+in+almost+all+street+drugs&iar=news&ia=news
Exactly. The elites normally could care less about the fentanyl pouring over the border. Well how about now wojiki???
Yes, thank you. That’s the famous back door admission.
Wojcicki’s dad was head of the Stanford Physics department. Undoubtedly her kid had lotsa help and decent genes for what he majored in (and believe it or not, UCB math is easier to get into then say Comp Sci). But in a perfect world he’s one in a sea of mostly Asian faces applying there. Being Susie’s kid and Stan’s grandkid really helps.
https://physics.stanford.edu/people/stanley-wojcicki
Sometimes being young, happy, and engaged, and smart, and rich...just ain’t enough. Ya’ need the extra boost to your brain neurons. It’s a lesson too late for the learnin’ for momma and baby. Very sad. The utter futility writ large.
UC Berkeley?
Stopped reading there.
News, but never good news.
Fentanyl....
the former ceo stepped on john q public’s 1st amendment, because mommy did not like what she heard, and john q. public bit back.
A proud democrat supporter of Joe Biden and Open Borders suffers a terrible loss as a result of Open Borders. Who Cares, this is what she supports and voted for.
When I think of the mother, I think of all the people who suffered or died from her campaign against Covid “disinformation” and political “disinformation.”
She is an actual fascist who has caused death and destruction for many innocents.
Lefties love drugs and the foreign invasions that bring in drugs. I have zero sympathies. In my young days I was in a responsible career in the military. Never did drugs. Never thought people who did were cool or special in any way. I thought they were brain dead morons who couldn’t handle reality. Everything I was into from screaming to the ground at terminal velocity to shooting guns was far more a trip than any drug they could take.
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