The huge number of YouTube users who have been finding themselves on the receiving end of YouTube’s relentless push over the past years to control and censor the platform will no doubt be surprised – perhaps shocked – to hear that Google’s video giant is “an open platform without gatekeepers”.
“Staggering hypocrisy” is what might also spring to mind while listening to YouTube’s Chief Product Officer Neal Mohan utter these words during the Zeitgeist 2022 event in London on May 20th.
Mohan did qualify his astounding claim that YouTube not only has no gatekeepers, or “anybody telling us whether our idea is good or bad”, by saying this “open platform” is one that does have community guidelines....
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