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This reads like an headline from "The Onion".
by belval 6y ago
This reads like an headline from "The Onion".
- gscott 6y agoWhich YouTube would turn around and censor
- thefounder 6y agoNot long time ago all the daily news headlines looked like from "The Onion".
- jkingsbery 6y agoThere was also an episode of The Office (US) about this. Dwight suggests to Jim he starts an employee-of-the-month award, then rigs it so Jim wins so that everyone turns on Jim. Jim at least had the good sense to decline the award.
- munk-a 6y agoWe can't really tell what is going on behind the curtain but my optimistic view is that no one in the room realized that receiving this award would have some terrible optics and that the awarders chose YouTube genuinely - if you have a narrow view of the content on there (and nobody sees everything) there are some segments where youtube does try to reinforce free speech sorta... maybe I'm being too charitable though. My cynical hope though is that Youtube pressured the award committee to give them one for hosting it - please someone in Youtube leak a memo about putting pressure on the committee it would be so absolutely delicious.
- benmmurphy 6y agoI thought this was the unwritten rule of how industry awards work. You sponsor them and then they give you an award. The people running the awards get money, and the people sponsoring them get something they can impress prospective clients with. Everyone wins!
- billh 6y agoAhh yes, the J.D. Power model of award giving.
- pjbk 6y agoCrazy. Now that you say that, I honestly thought it was a parody even showing up here in HN. Took me a few seconds to realize it was not when reading the article, and had to watch part of the video to convince myself. But then again, most news these days read like an Onion article of yesteryears. Just sad, not funny anymore.
- userbinator 6y agoI don't think the phrase "LOL WUT" has ever before captured my reaction so accurately upon reading a headline.