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Perfect example. He also took programs to the next level — eg first president to authorize the US to assassinate its own citizens!
And signed a law authorizing indefinite detention of american citizens without trial. Surprised he didn't win any champion of due process awards.
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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 some…
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.
To say nothing of the source of the prize itself.
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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 some…
> "...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 w…
Let this be a lesson to all: intelligence does not in any way correlate with self awareness. It's likely that 'smart' people are just as likely to be unaware of their own follies or inabilities, I would argue, maybe more so as a lot of smart people tend to be 'inwardly focused' and less concerned about their direct environment. This kind of thing happens all the time among Exec. level, but normally we'd expect it fro…
I think it says much more about how they see the consumers. They're probably counting on 99% of people not noticing the absurdity of it, or the irony in boasting about your industrial scale censorship when accepting your free speech award.
So in the Puritan Village, the ministers give themselves freedom of religion awards for their contributions to freeing the True Religion from all impediments to its universal imposition.
Hate, lies, propaganda are all fine as long as they are in Russian and support Moscow point of view. I heard that even the disputes in Russian are rerouted to Moscow office!
Unfortunately Ukrainians do not have such freedoms, many comments are deleted, accounts are banned and many attempts to deliver the truth are prosecuted or overwhelmed by Moscow bots but since Moscow doesn't consider Ukrainians as people or humans with rights anyway I think it's ok in the eyes of Youtube's CEO (judging by the actions)? Or she simply doesn't know?
I mean who would dare to censor Moscow point of view , it would be a censorship! Even if they already attacked Ukraine and gather huge army near the border to kill milllions. Who cares ... right?
PS: Since I prognose downvoting desires I want you to pay attention, that Russian Bots is a huge problem. I've seen them acting in Russian, now they are using this technique in English speaking communities. Do not underestimate the threat. It's not a joke, they literally bully and shut up anyone who dare to oppose them. They work 24h so at some point you have no power to resist in your spare time to that machine. If you downvote this comment that tries to rise awareness of this huge problem because it's not entertaining, conser yourself helping to this propaganda machine and be sure soon it will come to you together with war, like it came to Ukraine in 2014. No one thought it would happen, just like this week many underestimate the real danger of a huge war to destroy young democracy in Ukraine.
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And signed a law authorizing indefinite detention of american citizens without trial. Surprised he didn't win any champion of due process awards.
Add let’s not forget the fact that he put digital surveillance on steroids! People tend to forget Snowden real easily nowadays
Youtube's algo gaslighted me about the suicide of a childhood friend, by picking content that mocked his life after I learned the bad news. I had already curated my feed to two specific science topics, and the top rec was a blaring million IQ evil AI punching me in the gut with an Iron Fist. I've never been the same since. Florence Nightingale effect. People such as Wojcicki have poor moral compasses, or they aren't…
This is the most Soviet thing I've heard in a while. The Ministry of Culture awards itself for upholding the Soviet principles of cultural enlightenment!
Honestly, I hope San Fran dissolves into the rest of the country. The mono-culture bubble in silicon valley is nauseating.