Comments on: “Jew Watch” cretin still footloose and fancy free at YouTube

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Oh, look — the “Jew Watch” cretin’s cracked YouTube’s top rated videos

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:01:11 +0000

[...] I’ve written two posts about it, I’ve had HA readers flag the videos as inappropriate in hopes of getting YouTube’s attention, and yet this worm crawls on. He’s approaching 100 videos now. There’s no way YT management doesn’t know. Clearly they’ve made a decision to let him crawl on. [...]

By: opusrex

opusrex — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 18:04:47 +0000

Any one got the number for the Anti-Defemation League? Oh, wait! Here it is.

By: Valiant

Valiant — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 14:53:59 +0000

Free speech is one thing. The selective defining of hate speech by YouTube, Digg, etc. is quite another. His numerous videos have been flagged inappropriate since the beginning to no avail.

By: Slublog

Slublog — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 14:20:46 +0000

“Cretin?”, maybe. But don’t forget that according to his website he *is* a “certified librarian.”

Certified, or certifiable?

By: BrunoMitchell

BrunoMitchell — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 13:00:53 +0000

“Cretin?”, maybe. But don’t forget that according to his website he *is* a “certified librarian.”

By: Slublog

Slublog — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 02:01:31 +0000

Why are you so interested in defending what he has to say?

Would you be so tolerant if he were ranting against gays? African-Americans? Mexicans?

Tell us, Nonfactor. What line does this guy need to cross before you’d want to silence him?

Do you agree with campus speech codes?

By: Slublog

Slublog — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 01:59:38 +0000

And the joy of silencing someone’s speech you don’t agree with is just an added bonus, right?

So you don’t believe that people should be held accountable to rules they agree to follow?

Do you agree with this guy, Nonfactor. Do you hate the Jews?

By: Nonfactor

Nonfactor — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 01:56:17 +0000

Slublog on April 4, 2007 at 9:45 PM

And the joy of silencing someone’s speech you don’t agree with is just an added bonus, right?

By: Slublog

Slublog — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 01:50:17 +0000

Blast. Hit post too soon.

Private companies are under no obligation to tolerate those who do not obey their rules. From YouTube’s Terms of Use:

C. In connection with User Submissions, you further agree that you will not: (i) submit material that is copyrighted, protected by trade secret or otherwise subject to third party proprietary rights, including privacy and publicity rights, unless you are the owner of such rights or have permission from their rightful owner to post the material and to grant YouTube all of the license rights granted herein; (ii) publish falsehoods or misrepresentations that could damage YouTube or any third party; (iii) submit material that is unlawful, obscene, defamatory, libelous, threatening, pornographic, harassing, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive, or encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, violate any law, or is otherwise inappropriate;

When this guy signed up for a YouTube account, he agreed to these rules – in a sense, he agreed to a form of prior restraint. Therefore, he has only as much freedom of speech as is allowed by the company hosting his rants, or the community of which he is a member.

So in agreeing to that prior restraint, he gave up his first amendment right to absolute free speech.

By: Slublog

Slublog — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 01:45:35 +0000

The freedom of speech includes hate speech. Christopher Hitchens gave a great speech about it.

This guy has freedom of speech.

However, he does not have the absolute freedom to say whatever he wants as part of the YouTube Community. I’ve had an account with them for some time, and in flagging his video for removal, am simply trying to get the company to enforce community standards against hate speech.

By: Nonfactor

Nonfactor — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 01:17:11 +0000

So hate speech is okay with you, then?

Or are you just pretending at contrarianism?

Slublog on April 4, 2007 at 3:47 PM

The freedom of speech includes hate speech. Christopher Hitchens gave a great speech about it.

Here’s the link: http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/2007/03/free_speech_6.html

What does it take to get you banned? Apparently your defense of a Jew-hater is not enough. So, F*CK YOU A$$HOLE.

Andy in Agoura Hills on April 4, 2007 at 3:25 PM

It’s hilarious that you find defense of freedom of speech more offensive than “F*CK YOU A$$HOLE.”

By: Robert Prather

Robert Prather — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 00:21:39 +0000

I should add that I only flagged it for the reason Laura did: a double standard. I’d be happy to leave that up if they would treat the atheist guy the same way.

By: Robert Prather

Robert Prather — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 00:19:51 +0000

Flagged as well.

By: John

John — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 00:09:12 +0000

Stupid question of the day: If the Joooos control all media (and you tube counts as media) than how come this crap is still up there?

By: Zorro

Zorro — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 23:25:52 +0000

Done.

How sad it would be to go through life as unhappy as that lost soul. It’s as if he did too much LDS as a youth at Berkeley (like Capt. Kirk alleged of Mr. Spock) and suffered permanent damage.

By: EnochCain

EnochCain — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 22:57:40 +0000

Flagged

By: Merovign

Merovign — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 22:35:33 +0000

Have I mentioned lately that Nonfactor has the most appropriate username ever?

I think we’re well on the way to proving empirically that YouTube is an anti-Semitic Organization.

I mean, they might be banning anti-jihad videos and leaving the jihad videos up out of base cowardice, but why is this crap still there? Are they afraid “Psycho Santa” here is going to hunt them down?

By: Laura

Laura — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 21:58:47 +0000

Flagged, but only because of YouTube’s double standard.

By: robblefarian

robblefarian — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 21:23:54 +0000

Flagged.

By: PinkyBigglesworth

PinkyBigglesworth — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 20:51:27 +0000

Inappropriate Nose Hair.

Kini on April 4, 2007 at 2:02 PM

Stole my thunder.

Honora, quick question, what would be “over the line” to you? Understanding words do have consequences, relevant to the IQ and education of the listener, knowing that feelings of group hate are easier to instill than understanding and tollerance. What would be “too hateful”?

By: uptight

uptight — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 20:32:34 +0000

The moment starts criticizing Jihadi terrorism, he’ll be banned.

At the moment, he’s only slamming the Joos, so it’s okay with YouTube

By: billy

billy — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 20:21:27 +0000

By my count, 13 people on this thread have flagged this video, plus me and,I assume, AP.
15, at least, complaints in less than 4 hours and it’s still available.
Well, Non-factor, you can rest easy; if you want to whip up hatred against a particular ethnic group, a multi-national corporation will help you out.

By: Slublog

Slublog — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 19:47:36 +0000

I’m all for silencing people’s speech. Where do I sign up?
Nonfactor on April 4, 2007 at 2:52 PM

So hate speech is okay with you, then?

Or are you just pretending at contrarianism?

By: Matticus Finch

Matticus Finch — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 19:29:22 +0000

So you don’t think it’s inappropriate, Nonfactor?

By: Andy in Agoura Hills

Andy in Agoura Hills — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 19:25:03 +0000

I’m all for silencing people’s speech. Where do I sign up?

Nonfactor on April 4, 2007 at 2:52 PM

What does it take to get you banned? Apparently your defense of a Jew-hater is not enough. So, F*CK YOU A$$HOLE.