mick1le2pick
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tuxbox said:PZ Myers and the Principle of Free Expression
C0nc0rdance, makes several good points in this video. However, just because YouTube technically owns the channel does not mean the user has to put up with hateful comments from internet trolls. Blocking comments and ratings is not denying anyone's write to free speech. If someone disagrees with the content of a video, they can always counter with a video of their own. I mostly watch music videos on YT and while searching for a cover of “The Unforgiven” from Metallica, I came across one from a rather homely kid performing both the clean and distorted guitar parts of the song. Comments and ratings had both been disabled and she had an annotation which went a little something like this, “I disabled comments because of all the death threats and people telling me to kill myself”. Like it or not, evil people are on the net and people have a right not to be bullied.
That's basically what people like VenomfangX have been saying all along, in fact PZ is worse than VFX, because while they both disable ratings VFX is no longer as bad when it comes to censoring comments.
It's not that you can't criticize him, it's that he trying to make it harder for you to critiz him and get him and his followers to see them, remember people always managed to critize VFX and others, but it's the intentions that matter. Also outside criticism is easier to ignore and thus helps with groupthink.