YouTube Walks Back Defense Of Commentator Accused Of Homophobic Harassment

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  1. Space_Time

    Space_Time Well-Known Member

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    Is what he does really harassment? Did Youtube act appropriately? Is did it cave in to political correctness?

     
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    Here's the irony...

    Crowder did a rebuttal video of Maza's video where Maza in a round about way argues that Fox controls the news... now here's Maza actively trying control youtube content... over flimsy accusations of racism and homophobia. Maza virtue signals the fact that he's gay and Latino, Crowder being the comedian he is plays off of that. That's the "homophobia and racism"... the mere fact that Crowder mentions it in a comedic sense.

    http://www.politicalforum.com/index.php?threads/conservatives-control-the-news.556627/
     
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    Youtube's rules apparently only apply to when someone is suspended or banned for breaking them, not for when they are demonetized for breaking them. I don't understand the point of demonetisation and what it achieves for Youtube. It seems to me that they should either be allowed to simply remain if they obey the rules or else suspended or banned for breaking them.
     
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    What do you think?
     
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    Comedy is constantly being attacked.
     
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    Its just an excuse for liberals to silence conservatives
     
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    Here's more:

     
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    Seems to me the defense of Crowder is an excuse for conservatives to be racist homophobes under the guise of "comedy".

    Conversely, remember when Trump wanted to censor SNL?
     
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    I agree that Crowder shouldn't be censored (mainly so he doesn't become a martyr to the "scholars" on the right) but you're delusional if you think that his jokes about Maza's sexuality aren't homophobic just because Maza is open about his sexuality.
     
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    They should come up with better rules but at the end of the day it is their private property so they get to decide how to run their ship.
     
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    While also enjoying protection from the government as they are treated as a platform and not a publisher?
     
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    How is Crowder a racist homophobe? What did he say that was racist and homophobic?

    Well he didn't say that he wants to censor it, but he said it should be at least looked into which is just as stupid. Yeah Trump is stupid - what else is new?
     
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    Liberal comedians have been republicans and Christians for 30 years

    As usual liberals can dish it out but they cant take it

    Free speech for everyone is the American way
     
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    How's it homo "phobic"?
     
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    Huh?

    Trump is the one who can't take a joke.

    So you support all comedy that is racist and homophobic?
     
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    You want to talk about harassment, what about Maza condoning the assault of his political opponents with milkshakes? As usual this is a double standard. If Crowder had done this he would have been literally killed by Youtube management - hung by the neck until death.

    A good old fashioned long drop hanging.
     
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    So like bill maher when he said he's a "house n####r" ?
     
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    Like Colbert saying "c*ck holster" ?
     
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    What's funny is the people saying YouTube is a private company so they get to decide how to run their ship we're the people upset how the private company decided to enforce their rules (see YouTube's first ruling) so they stomped their feet until they got their way. If they are a private company why be mad at how they choose to enforce their rules?
     
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    I can remember when eddie murphy was making fun of white people

    Liberals didnt object to racial humor then
     
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    Did you object?
     
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    And him saying that is fine, right?

    And any right wing people that boycott stuff or object to stuff....they are always wrong, correct?
     
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    And you support him saying that, correct?
     
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    The harassment that is occurring is mostly on Twitter by people who watched Steven Crowder's videos. It isn't perpetrated by Steven Crowder. Maza and quite a few other commentators on YouTube mostly on the left side of things complain about content creators who criticize what someone said is sending legions of fans after them.

    The creators cannot be held responsible for the actions of their fans unless there was a directive. I'm a fan of Steven Crowder's and seem to recall him specifically saying not to do that even before this blew up in the public sphere.

    I remember this happening with smaller channels between a Creator named Christy Winters who was a neo feminist and a tree hater called bearing who is an anti-feminist egalitarian.

    The people who should be punished are the people responsible for the harassment directly responsible for the harassment.

    Direct responsibility is an easy concept to understand. Take for instance a person who was a fan of a TV show called Rick and Morty. He walked into a McDonald's and began to jump up and down on the service counter demanding Szechuan sauce and then proceeded to fall over on the floor screeching babbling incoherently and then he ran out the door. If McDonald's had decided to press charges, they would press charges against the man who did this not the creators of Rick and Morty.
     
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    Calling someone a queer mexican is comedy?
     

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