One in all these executives appears identical to the opposite. Whereas YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has stepped down, her successor is simply as anti-free speech.

Whereas the resignation of anti-free speech YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki appeared a trigger for rejoicing, MRC Free Speech America additionally warned that her substitute Neal Mohan has beforehand voiced help for censorship. Wojcicki stated Mohan used to go YouTube’s Belief and Security workforce, which is accountable for making censorship insurance policies and implementing them, based on Reclaim the Internet.

Mohan has even bragged in regards to the effectivity of YouTube’s censorship equipment.

Mohan “would usually promote and defend controversial YouTube insurance policies” throughout Wojcicki’s tenure as CEO, Reclaim the Internet reported. For example, Mohan introduced YouTube’s determination in December 2019 to delete Steven Crowder movies retroactively as a result of they apparently violated the platform’s then-new harassment coverage, regardless of Crowder’s movies predating the coverage. Extra lately, in 2022, Mohan defined YouTube’s “preemptive” censorship of supposed “misinformation.”

“The hitman has now change into the mob boss,” stated Vice President of MRC Free Speech America and MRC Enterprise Dan Schneider. “It’s the social media model of mobster John Gotti elevating Sammy the Bull Gravano to underboss. However in the long run, justice was served on the mob, and Massive Tech is heading for the same reckoning.”

The outlet additional defined, “In 2020, Mohan introduced a number of censorship initiatives together with an ‘Intelligence Desk’ that targets rising ‘conspiracy theories’ and a ban on movies that ‘would possibly’ encourage individuals to disregard stay-at-home recommendation. He additionally confirmed that YouTube’s strict coronavirus misinformation coverage would apply to the feedback part.” Mohan had already introduced YouTube’s controversial “creator-on-creator” harassment guidelines in 2019.

Mohan has additionally repeatedly defended the much-critiqued YouTube coverage to spice up what it deems to be “authoritative” sources artificially over impartial content material creators, Reclaim the Internet reported. The outlet quoted Mohan in 2020 claiming that content material creators “espousing” opinions “of their basement” weren’t reliable for offering context to COVID-19 information. YouTube quietly modified its COVID-19 misinformation coverage in 2022 after a number of beforehand censored statements made by COVID-19 skeptics turned out to be credible.

Mohan, in 2022, described censorship of Russian disinformation as “a relentless ongoing endeavor” and has persistently used leftist buzzwords to justify censorship like “misinformation,” Reclaim the Internet reported.

Mohan and Wojcicki have labored collectively for years, first when Wojcicki introduced Mohan on at Google in 2007 after which as executives for Google-owned YouTube. Sadly, Mohan’s previous suggests he’s more likely to be simply as a lot an enemy to free speech as Wojcicki was.

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