{"id":1302710,"date":"2022-02-16T13:23:39","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T18:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1302710"},"modified":"2022-02-16T13:23:43","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T18:23:43","slug":"google-speech-code-youtube-ceo-susan-wojcicki-calls-on-governments-to-censor-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/google-speech-code-youtube-ceo-susan-wojcicki-calls-on-governments-to-censor-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Speech Code: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Calls on Governments to Censor the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgoogle-speech-code-youtube-ceo-susan-wojcicki-calls-on-governments-to-censor-the-internet%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1302710&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The CEO of Google-owned YouTube, Susan Wojcicki, recently urged world governments to pass stronger speech laws to restrict speech online deemed \u201charmful.\u201d Her ominous message is that the path to \u201cmore control over online speech\u201d is to pass laws that ignore the First Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>Reclaim The Net <a href=\"https:\/\/reclaimthenet.org\/youtube-ceo-governments-online-speech-laws\/\">reports<\/a>&nbsp;that YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki stated during a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EelzU4gnEMY\">interview with the Hamburg-based independent broadcaster TIDETVhamburg<\/a>&nbsp;that the platform\u2019s decision to censor legal content that it considers \u201charmful,\u201d is considered controversial. Wojcicki further urged governments to take a stronger stance against harmful ideas and pass stronger speech laws. Wojcicki said:&nbsp;\u201cOur recommendation, if governments want to have more control over online speech is to pass laws to have that be very cleanly and clearly defined so that we can implement it,\u201d Wojcicki said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n[embedded content]\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Wojcicki was asked about how the platform navigates various national laws and advertiser rules when moderating online content.&nbsp;\u201cWe work around the globe, and you\u2019re right, certainly there are many different laws and many different jurisdictions, and we\u2026enforce the laws of the various jurisdictions around speech or what\u2019s considered safe or not safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10719339\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Google-owned-Youtube-CEO-Susan-Wojcicki.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10719339\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Google-owned-Youtube-CEO-Susan-Wojcicki.jpg\" alt=\"Google-owned Youtube CEO Susan Wojcicki\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Google-owned Youtube CEO Susan Wojcicki ( Kimberly White \/Getty)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_17585586\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Sundar-Pichai-CEO-of-Google.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17585586\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Sundar-Pichai-CEO-of-Google.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sundar Pichai CEO of Google ( Carsten Koall \/Getty)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Wojcicki continued to say that there has not been much controversy surrounding the company\u2019s enforcement of these laws. She added that the controversy tends to arise when Google censors \u201charmful\u201d but \u201cnot illegal\u201d content, espeically content relating to the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>She explained YouTube\u2019s position on misinformation:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What has been the controversial part is when there is content that would be deemed as harmful but yet is not illegal. An example of that, for example, would be COVID.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not aware of there being laws by governments saying around COVID in terms of not being able to debate the efficacy of masks or where the virus came from or the right treatment or proposal but yet there was a lot of pressure and concern about us distributing misinformation that went against what was the standard and accepted medical knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>And so this category of harmful but\u2026legal has been, I think, where most of the discussion has been.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The YouTube CEO has previously called on the <a href=\"https:\/\/reclaimthenet.org\/youtube-ceo-calls-for-us-to-offer-guidance-on-hate-speech\/\">U.S. government to offer guidance on \u201chate speech,\u201d<\/a> and largely has called for further government censorship \u2014 likely so that YouTube can pass on the responsibility of censoring content to governments, rather than admit that the company is censoring content based on its own policies.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/reclaimthenet.org\/youtube-ceo-governments-online-speech-laws\/\">Reclaim The Net here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<\/i><i><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lucasnolan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@LucasNolan<\/a>&nbsp;<\/i><i>or contact via secure email at the address&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"mailto:lucasnolan@protonmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">lucasnolan@protonmail.com<\/a><\/i><i><\/i><\/strong><i><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CEO of Google-owned YouTube, Susan Wojcicki, recently urged world governments to pass stronger speech laws to restrict speech online deemed \u201charmful.\u201d Her ominous message is that the path to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1302710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1302710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1302710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1302710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1302710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}