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.
This and other companies need to be destroyed. By market forces or by fire, they need to be utterly wiped out and their people need to be fleeing in terror from the wrath of America.
She probably can’t stand public opinions about her less than attractive appearance.
People whose open smile is almost half upper gums need to realize that they can smile without showing their teeth, and actually look better. But inside, that woman is a -10.
(My wife has always had a gorgeous smile, with lovely teeth and no gums visible. But her closed lips smile is just as wonderful.)
Exactly. Outsourcing tyranny to private companies doesn’t make it okay.
“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...
Shoot her.
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Big tech needs to be brought down and broken up. No more government protections.
Well which is it?
Do you want the government controlling the speech of these platforms or not?
And dictating that they must say something is exactly the same as prohibiting them from saying something.
I think that the market is in control and has allowed creation of what must be called greatness.
There is and always has been small tech. Alone small tech lacks leverage to solve problems. So, small tech is sold and amalgamated symbiotically, combines within other small tech to create something larger and quantum degrees greater in ability and outreach.
The problem is not size but politicization.
This is a Great Idea, I propose we BAN YouTube from the US, maybe even seize thier Domain to prevent Bad Speech
Good point. So frustrating.
There is no need. Government already has a direct connection to social media. Remember the woman in Canada who got a visit from the gestapolice for a facebook post?
Today’s social media are subject to the orders of government. Social media willingly shares information with government. Social media, in return, gets favorable treatment from government, and gets away with things that other organizations wouldn’t get away with.
I’m willing to bet my autographed copy of the Communist Manifesto that the sharing of information is done without a warrant.
Nice to read a "blast from the past" that is no longer relevant in our totally communist-controlled country...
The deed is done!
As Bill C. would say: "Put some ice on it!"
Our communist masters are emboldened by both the fact that the communists have competed their rape of the United States (a name that is now a misnomer) and it has turned out that the sheeple just do not care...
For example:
The Communist Purge & All Other Aspects of Our Communist Tyranny Continues To Grow Exponentially...
More & More, It Appears That Nothing Will Ever Be Done About It!
Saw a presentation on how these corporations are essentially
constituting laws that Congress had never moved on.
They have no authority to do many things they are doing today.
Youtube is THE biggest stealer of other peoples content.
Much of what is there is copyrighted but google makes a lot of money with ads they put in.
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