On the disapearing comments
Added 2019-10-19 18:51:06 +0000 UTCIt has recently come to people's attention that certain people can no longer comment under my channel. And I wish to address this head-on and in full honesty.
Yes. I have banned people from commenting on my channel and under my videos. In particular, I spent the past 2 years reading through the comments under my videos and basically banned every single commentator who denied the holocaust, spread Jewish conspiracies, posted nonsense about how some "races" are subhumans or anyone who links to videos by any alt righters. That is basically the standard by which channels get banned. If someone posts something like that, I ban them. I want to underline that I did NOT ban any conservatives or Maga supporters, for I feel they should be free to voice their opinions and I believe they engage in debate with honesty and integrity. But I have absolutely zero tolerance left for alt right, trad cath, neo nazi, white nationalist, or alt light trash. These are people who accused me of doxings that I didn't do, smeared me, doxxed me, harassed my family, forced me to move into a new home, and basically dedicated months of their lives to making my life as miserable as possible. And I have to be honest, it really grosses me out how some of these people think they can now, that I no longer make videos on their pathetic ideas or the drama they caused, crawl into my DMs and comment section as if nothing ever happened. I don't want these people around. I find them gross. I find it disgusting how they can lie about people, shut people down and try to ruin people's lives while at the same time whine and whinge about how much they are for "free speech". A vital part of free speech is that the conversation takes place, and these people seek to undermine and disrupt that conversation. As long as these people cant be honest, I won't tolerate them on my channel. if you have a problem with that, I understand. But I am also pretty sure most of you wont miss their comments at all.ο»Ώ
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Matthew Colgan
2019-10-21 12:25:59 +0000 UTCI understand the difficulty here, while sunlight is the best disinfectant etc, there comes a point where you're just allowing yourself to be abused and your time to be stolen. While youtube is a platform for discussion of interesting and contentious subjects, it is also for entertainment, for enjoyment and these people cannot be reasoned with and they suck the joy out of any thread they sink their venomous talons into.
nefarious
2019-10-19 20:12:03 +0000 UTC