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If you look at pretty much any policy decision where
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The YouTube Effect

If you look at pretty muchany policy decision where Google could potentiallybe impacted,...

If you look at pretty much
any policy decision where Google could potentially
be impacted, you know, sometimes I think about
it as like a big circle, and you know,
you have the left and the right, and Google has given money to just everyone
involved in the debates.
[laughs] [Eric Schmidt] Google's mission
is to connect the world, right, to get all that
information out

Full Transcript

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If you look at pretty much any policy decision where
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Google could potentially be impacted, you know,
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sometimes I think about it as like a big circle,
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and you know, you have the left and the right,
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and Google has given money
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to just everyone involved in the debates. [laughs]
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[Eric Schmidt] Google's mission is to connect the world,
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right, to get all that information out.
Duration
21 seconds
Views
38
Timestamp in Movie
00:48:15
Uploaded
Apr 16, 2025
Genres
documentary, mystery, thriller
Production
XRM Media,Olive Hill Media,TIME Studios,Valhalla Entertainment,Trouper,Zipper Bros Films

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Movie Summary

In this eye-opening documentary, Alex Winter presents a thoughtful, troubling look at YouTube, a site with humble origins that has gone on to change how we experience the world.
We want a free open Internet for every citizen of the world. - The YouTube Effect 00:05
We want a free open Internet for every citizen of the world.
[somber music] - The YouTube Effect 00:08
[somber music]
Why we're sitting here today, it's Section 230. - The YouTube Effect 00:05
Why we're sitting here today, it's Section 230.
We filed a complaint with the FTC - The YouTube Effect 00:11
We filed a complaint with the FTC
[somber music] - The YouTube Effect 00:16
[somber music]
When they talk about kind of maximizing speech on their platform, - The YouTube Effect 00:12
When they talk about kind of maximizing speech on their plat...
With Section 230, - The YouTube Effect 00:09
With Section 230,
So, one of them is that it gives us, - The YouTube Effect 00:08
So, one of them is that it gives us,
But the second is that it enables us also to remove content - The YouTube Effect 00:08
But the second is that it enables us also to remove content
But I think now, 20 plus years on, - The YouTube Effect 00:16
But I think now, 20 plus years on,
If they're planning to commit a crime, - The YouTube Effect 00:05
If they're planning to commit a crime,
But that's not what social media is anymore, - The YouTube Effect 00:07
But that's not what social media is anymore,
They are not a neutral arbiter - The YouTube Effect 00:08
They are not a neutral arbiter
They pick and choose the winners and the losers - The YouTube Effect 00:06
They pick and choose the winners and the losers
Yeah, it raises a lot of questions like - The YouTube Effect 00:06
Yeah, it raises a lot of questions like
Are we okay with that? Like, I think that, you know, - The YouTube Effect 00:23
Are we okay with that? Like, I think that, you know,
I think we need to be tremendously skeptical - The YouTube Effect 00:11
I think we need to be tremendously skeptical
That said, I do think that we can look at amending it - The YouTube Effect 00:09
That said, I do think that we can look at amending it
[Carrie] They don't see us as important, we're not their actual customers. - The YouTube Effect 00:06
[Carrie] They don't see us as important, we're not...
If there's content that we want down - The YouTube Effect 00:09
If there's content that we want down