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"It might be a sign that Susan does not have a fully trusted team around her ..." => It might be a sign that team around her is afraid to tell her how ridiculou

• slickrick216 5y ago
  It might be worse. They could actually believe they are promoting freedom of expression by silencing people. Pushed straight past delusion into faith.
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• waterhouse 5y ago
  I'm currently tickling my brain with the hypothesis that this is a next-level move by her team, to get her to publicly "emphasize the importance of free speech and the role that YouTube plays in protecting it", so that it will become more inconvenient for her (or for the rest of Youtube) to do more things that interfere with free speech. Analogize this to publicly praising a corrupt general for doing or planning something good that he hasn't actually been doing. It's difficult for him to turn down the praise ("No, I seriously haven't done anything to deserve this"), and meanwhile it focuses eyes on him and pressures him to actually do the thing. I read about the tactic in a fictional book once, I'm sure it works. :-)
  • cbozeman 5y ago
    Well that won't work... former President Barack Obama received the Nobel Peace prize but he went on to involve the United States in additional foreign wars and went ham with drone strikes.
    • DSingularity 5y ago
      Perfect example. He also took programs to the next level — eg first president to authorize the US to assassinate its own citizens!
      • barbacoa 5y ago
        And signed a law authorizing indefinite detention of american citizens without trial. Surprised he didn't win any champion of due process awards.
        • pupdogg 5y ago
          Add let’s not forget the fact that he put digital surveillance on steroids! People tend to forget Snowden real easily nowadays
          • spicyramen 5y ago
            And allowed the war on drugs to escalate via fast and furious program
            • adamrezich 5y ago
              yo but despite everything listed above, like, everyone loved him when he was the sitting President many still think he's one of the greatest Presidents of all time man what is up with that tho
              • perl4ever 5y ago
                I saw an article recently where some school was being renamed for the sort of reasons people call "cancel culture" these days and they explicitly rejected renaming it after Obama, because he was an "oppressor" due to the (allegedly very vigorous) deportation of undocumented immigrants during his terms. For me, he's the greatest President because of the ACA.
  • ajxs 5y ago
    > "...so that it will become more inconvenient for her (or for the rest of Youtube) to do more things that interfere with free speech." This is a good theory, I don't think it reflects the situation though. She used her 'acceptance speech' for this absurd accolade to emphasise the importance of censorship in ensuring freedom, that war is peace, freedom is slavery, so on so on. If this was the aim, it clearly didn't work. Given her speech, the irony is either totally lost on her, or she legitimately thinks that YouTube is such a monolithic entity that the truth is whatever she says it is.
    • specialist 5y ago
      aka Freedom Speeches™
      • zo1 5y ago
        Censorship is Freedom!