Ding-dong, the censor is gone. Susan Wojcicki has introduced she is resigning from her place as YouTube CEO the place she presided over an period of unprecedented censorship on the video platform.

Wojcicki introduced her resignation the day after the Home of Representatives issued subpoenas to CEOs of varied Massive Tech firms, together with YouTube’s guardian firm, Google. The New York Publish famous that she was one among Google’s first staff 25 years in the past and can reportedly proceed as an advisor to Google guardian firm Alphabet. YouTube’s overtly pro-censorship senior promoting and product government Neal Mohan, will reportedly substitute Wojcicki, the Publish added.

Free speech advocates will hardly be disillusioned by Wojcicki stepping down, however there are considerations that Mohan may very well be simply as pro-censorship as his predecessor. Mohan beforehand claimed that YouTube is pro-free speech and its staff aren’t “arbiters of fact” whereas concurrently describing YouTube’s neighborhood pointers (i.e. pointers for censoring content material) as “sturdy.” He has even bragged concerning the efficency of YouTube’s censorship equipment. 

“YouTube has an extended historical past of silencing conservatives after which making it unattainable to attraction their choices,” Vice President of MRC Free Speech America & MRC Enterprise Dan Schneider mentioned. “It’s laborious to think about it selecting anybody worse than Wojcicki. However then once more Venezuelans picked Marxist Maduro after Hugo Chavez met his maker.”

Wojcicki’s conveinently timed resignation begs the query: Is she frightened about being held accountable for Google-owned YouTube’s censorship? Maybe she must be. 

YouTube is likely one of the most aggressively pro-censorship Massive Tech platforms. YouTube Vice President of Authorities Affairs and Public Coverage Leslie Miller boasted throughout an October 2021 Senate listening to that YouTube had eliminated over 1 million movies for supposed COVID-19 “misinformation.” Mohan, the brand new CEO, made the identical boast. Later, in August 2022, after a number of claims that YouTube deemed “misinformation” turned out to be credible, YouTube quietly modified its COVID-19 medical misinformation coverage. It eliminated penalties for criticizing authorities coverage and private practices round masking. The platform additionally twice censored two days’ price of CPAC movies, as soon as in March 2022 when it censored CPAC Florida after which once more in September when it censored CPAC Texas.

Wojcicki herself touted YouTube’s censorship whereas talking at a World Financial Discussion board (WEF) Davos convention in Might 2022. She rambled concerning the necessity of censoring supposed “misinformation” on-line.

The CEO has tried to assert allegiance to free speech whereas additionally defending her platform’s bias and censorship. As an example, she claimed in a September 2022 interview that YouTube wished “as a lot free speech as we probably can have” and that the platform stands as much as pro-censorship governments. In gentle of latest bombshell allegations that YouTube labored with the U.S. authorities to censor People, this appears disingenuous. 

In that very same interview, Wojcicki additionally admitted that YouTube does censor content material it deems “undesirable or not supporting society or not being accountable,” which is a obscure description of YouTube’s fixed censorship.

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