Google CEO openly admits to censorship in new CNN Interview

Published June 17, 2019 5:04pm ET



This weekend, Google CEO Sundar Pichai had an hour-long interview with CNN, which featured recent changes to YouTube’s “hate-speech policies.” Pichai said YouTube is “very focused on removing harmful content,” and his thoughts on free speech were quite alarming.

The CEO bragged that YouTube had taken down 9 million videos that violated its policies, adding that YouTube is aiming to correctly draw the line between free speech and hate speech “over 99% of the time.”

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