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 Huge Tech corporations, together with YouTube’s mum or dad firm, Google. The New York Submit famous that she was one in all Google’s first staff 25 years in the past and can reportedly proceed as an advisor to Google mum or dad firm Alphabet. YouTube’s overtly pro-censorship senior promoting and product government Neal Mohan, will reportedly exchange Wojcicki, the Submit added.

Free speech advocates will hardly be disenchanted by Wojcicki stepping down, however there are considerations that Mohan might be simply as pro-censorship as his predecessor. Mohan beforehand claimed that YouTube is pro-free speech and its staff aren’t “arbiters of reality” whereas concurrently describing YouTube’s group 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 not possible to enchantment their selections,” Vice President of MRC Free Speech America & MRC Enterprise Dan Schneider mentioned. “It’s exhausting to think about it choosing 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 apprehensive about being held accountable for Google-owned YouTube’s censorship? Maybe she ought to be. 

YouTube is without doubt one of the most aggressively pro-censorship Huge 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’ value 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 Could 2022. She rambled concerning the necessity of censoring supposed “misinformation” on-line.

The CEO has tried to say allegiance to free speech whereas additionally defending her platform’s bias and censorship. For example, she claimed in a September 2022 interview that YouTube wished “as a lot free speech as we presumably 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 imprecise description of YouTube’s fixed censorship.

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