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I refreshed the HN home page and, for a brief moment, on the same page there was "YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Gets 'Freedom Expression' Award Sponsored by YouTub
by cryptica 6y ago
I refreshed the HN home page and, for a brief moment, on the same page there was "YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Gets 'Freedom Expression' Award Sponsored by YouTube" right above another link about YouTube CEO banning videos which don't align with COVID19 WHO guidelines...
We live in a clown world.
Even if people thought that what she did was a good thing (which is debatable), it's a ridiculous idea to reward someone for enabling 'free speech' when in fact they've been suppressing it.
That makes no sense at all. It's cringeworthy that anyone would not realize that this award is a prank.
I wonder if the people who issued this award and the person receiving it know that it's a prank...
- throwaway3699 6y agoIt's become part of corporate elite politics that "freedom of expression" means having "trolls", "Russian bots" and "conspiracy theorists" removed from the conversation. This has also crippled any kind of political conversation on the website that isn't full of people saying codewords and secret phrases to avoid the ban hammer.