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Genuinely, who cares about the award? I don't think anyone will assume that YouTube abides by free speech just because their CEO won an award no one's ever heard about.

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I think GP is pointing it out because of how patently ridiculous it is, not as an example of how they abide free speech.

That situation is the obama-gives-obama-a-medal meme.

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