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2021 Free Expression Awards Highlight: Susan Wojcicki

Freedom Forum · 236.8K views · 2021-04-16 · 10:40

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Highlight clip from the 2021 Free Expression Awards honoring YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki. The video became notable for its overwhelmingly negative like/dislike ratio.

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Cited as an ironic example of YouTube receiving a free expression award, and as a showcase of the public dislike count before it was hidden.

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ainar-g · 2021-11 · Criticism

Rewind is kind of old news. Now that time YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki received a Free Expression Award from an organisation sponsored by YouTube[1] is more recent and something else completely, ratio-wise. Currently at 56,502 dislikes vs 226 likes. Which is a ratio of over 250×. [1]: [VIDEO]

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throwaway2077 · 2021-11 · Criticism

it is unacceptable that goodthink content that promotes correct opinions gets ratioed and ridiculed. the writing was on the wall for a while. this was probably the final nail in the coffin: [VIDEO] kudos to our billionaire overlords, celebrities and their first world cosmopolitan yuppie congregation for looking out for us unwashed, uneducated plebeians. without their guidance, we'd be lost.

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throwaway2077 · 2021-11 · Criticism

the writing was on the wall for a while. this was probably the final nail in the coffin: [VIDEO] go glimpse it in all its glory before it gets memoryholed

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