Why would I waste time rebutting someone's opinion? Your mind is already made up about Crowder.
Clearly you did zero research on the person who created the campaign to try to have Crowder removed. Or if you did, it's obvious you can't objectively apply the same standards with which you tarnish Crowder. Examples from just Maza's own Tweeter account: "Milkshake them all. Humiliate them at every turn. Make them dread public organizing…",
or
"For the record:
When I said I wanted someone to “murder my bussy” in Spring of 2013, I was not literally condoning the use of murder. I regret my comment and will try to do better moving forward."
or,
"I sincerely apologize for my August 2000 tweet in which I suggested that I would “murder my entire family” for a chance to meet Final Destination’s Devon Sawa.
It was cruel and vulgar and I shouldn’t have said it or actually tried it."
or,
"To clarify an earlier tweet that’s been dug up:
I did not literally mean I wanted to wear Celine Dion’s skin as a full body suit.
I abhor the skinning of humans and regret another tasteless joke."
or his current tagline on Tweeter:
"Tucker Carlson is a white supremacist."
My point, which you didn't contradict, is you enjoy the ability to have an opinion others may objectively disagree with, and call people derogatory names based on your opinion. You can do that within the confines of TechDirt today. Today, if you do it on YouTube, and if the opposition decides to unlesh the mob, you may be de-monetized or removed. History has shown that today's saint is tomorrow's sinner.
Crowder is neither an a--hole, crazy, or deranged in the opinion of millions of normal people who don't share your opinion. He's a content creator with a point of view and sometimes uses descriptive humor to make his point, which, as you point out, DID NOT VIOLATE YOUTUBE's POLICIES.
What followed was pandering to the flavor of the month. Here's to hoping you never get on the wrong side of the flavor of the month. But if you do, you'll only have your half-hearted attempts to defend the 1st Amendment from monopolistic corporations to thank for it.
Mike,
RE: "He's correct that Crowder does seem to be an asshole and there's no reason to express any sympathy for Crowder being a jerk and attacking someone for their sexual orientation or ethnicity."
Calling Crowder a comedian is like calling Bill Maher a comedian. While technically true, it's small part of why his audience watches. Crowder has posted over a thousand videos to his YouTube channel. Hundreds are not comedy, but commentary or educational. His most popular are 'Prove Me Wrong' videos. In those videos, he is respectful, thoughtful, and goes out of his way to not antagonize. Often, the people he engages or the general audience standing around supporting the counter-position are anything but respectful. Watch a few of his videos, "crazy and deranged" just starts to describe some of their actions.
The irony of your post is that you, on the word of a person employed by a division of a billion dollar corporation who creates media in competition with YouTube self-publishers, and the same person that began the drumbeat of asking YouTube to remove Crowder long before the Crowder teasing of him began, take to your platform to call him an a--hole and jerk. Good thing you don't have a YouTube platform with millions of followers, or you could be accused of far worse.
I enjoy TechDirt for a variety of reasons related to your usually objective legal insights and ability to see the forest for the trees; your occasional breaks from thoughtful insights when speaking about conservatives aren't one of them.
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Re: Re: "Do Keep Up"
I'll use smaller sentences.
Why would I waste time rebutting someone's opinion? Your mind is already made up about Crowder.
Clearly you did zero research on the person who created the campaign to try to have Crowder removed. Or if you did, it's obvious you can't objectively apply the same standards with which you tarnish Crowder. Examples from just Maza's own Tweeter account: "Milkshake them all. Humiliate them at every turn. Make them dread public organizing…",
or
"For the record:
When I said I wanted someone to “murder my bussy” in Spring of 2013, I was not literally condoning the use of murder. I regret my comment and will try to do better moving forward."
or,
"I sincerely apologize for my August 2000 tweet in which I suggested that I would “murder my entire family” for a chance to meet Final Destination’s Devon Sawa.
It was cruel and vulgar and I shouldn’t have said it or actually tried it."
or,
"To clarify an earlier tweet that’s been dug up:
I did not literally mean I wanted to wear Celine Dion’s skin as a full body suit.
I abhor the skinning of humans and regret another tasteless joke."
or his current tagline on Tweeter:
"Tucker Carlson is a white supremacist."
My point, which you didn't contradict, is you enjoy the ability to have an opinion others may objectively disagree with, and call people derogatory names based on your opinion. You can do that within the confines of TechDirt today. Today, if you do it on YouTube, and if the opposition decides to unlesh the mob, you may be de-monetized or removed. History has shown that today's saint is tomorrow's sinner.
Crowder is neither an a--hole, crazy, or deranged in the opinion of millions of normal people who don't share your opinion. He's a content creator with a point of view and sometimes uses descriptive humor to make his point, which, as you point out, DID NOT VIOLATE YOUTUBE's POLICIES.
What followed was pandering to the flavor of the month. Here's to hoping you never get on the wrong side of the flavor of the month. But if you do, you'll only have your half-hearted attempts to defend the 1st Amendment from monopolistic corporations to thank for it.
"Do Keep Up"
Mike,
RE: "He's correct that Crowder does seem to be an asshole and there's no reason to express any sympathy for Crowder being a jerk and attacking someone for their sexual orientation or ethnicity."
Calling Crowder a comedian is like calling Bill Maher a comedian. While technically true, it's small part of why his audience watches. Crowder has posted over a thousand videos to his YouTube channel. Hundreds are not comedy, but commentary or educational. His most popular are 'Prove Me Wrong' videos. In those videos, he is respectful, thoughtful, and goes out of his way to not antagonize. Often, the people he engages or the general audience standing around supporting the counter-position are anything but respectful. Watch a few of his videos, "crazy and deranged" just starts to describe some of their actions.
The irony of your post is that you, on the word of a person employed by a division of a billion dollar corporation who creates media in competition with YouTube self-publishers, and the same person that began the drumbeat of asking YouTube to remove Crowder long before the Crowder teasing of him began, take to your platform to call him an a--hole and jerk. Good thing you don't have a YouTube platform with millions of followers, or you could be accused of far worse.
I enjoy TechDirt for a variety of reasons related to your usually objective legal insights and ability to see the forest for the trees; your occasional breaks from thoughtful insights when speaking about conservatives aren't one of them.
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