YouTube

[one eyed jack]

I think YouTube is great...

To a point

Reading a lot of comments (or not as the case may be) there seems to be an awful lot of unnecessary,racist, sexist and generally nasty and unnecesary comments that should put it in the leagues of being banned to children and it really anoys me in this age of war on porn, sexualisation of children culminating in ATVOD watch dogs for porn tha sites as big as this goes untouched and seem to be the worst purveors of its kind to allow comments to go unedited on their site

It seems to me if they can quickly delete material that goes agains their T&Cs that they should be able to remove comments in the same way

Or does no one but me actually notice this?

[one eyed jack]

For example:

Fair dues, some didnt like the movie but is it necessary to be so damn nasty!

[one eyed jack]

They even allow links to filesharing and torrent sites fer chrissakes!!!!

[David Johnson]

"It seems to me if they can quickly delete material that goes agains their T&Cs that they should be able to remove comments in the same way"

I guess it is pretty difficult to monitor Youtube product. Apparently, there are 120 million Youtube videos, with currently 200,000 clips being loaded each day - about 13 hours of content each minute. And those clips are being loaded from all over the world with very different laws etc etc.

Cheers
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[frankthring]

While agreeing that many of the comments I read on youtube are a mix
of the narrow-minded, ill-informed, racist, sad, stupid and uneducated, I
think that free speech is more important. Let them rant in their comments.
An intelligent person can always determine a shallow, stupid or poorly
informed comment. Censoring the comments, like censorship generally,
is a bad step.

[one eyed jack]

I guess you're right Frank but it seems to me that the people that exercise that freedom to vent their opinions are always faceless so whats the point of all that freedom if it cant be backed up.

My point is, freedom of speech is wasted when all you read is a load of offensive nonsense amd not know anything about the people that say it

And if youtube was really exercising peoples right to say what they want then why not leave all the porn on that they remove. I fond porn a lot less offensive than the comments I read there

If they can successfully get rid of all that porn they can surely moderate the comments that go with it

[one eyed jack]

As I said, all well and good but...

What about the poor little children!!!!! Dear god no. The poor little mites. What about them!

I say there is a time and place. I agree with your freedom of speech chaps but then if there was no order then maybe we should have porn on there too for the little tykes to see.

Thats what Im saying, why no porn if they allow the filthy nasty comments why not the rest that go with it?

After all, isnt that part of free speech too

Shouldnt YouTube keep it nice and pleasant for the kiddie winks? After all they make up a huge part of that comunity which is why I brought it up as a topic

[one eyed jack]

By the way Charles I think that should go both ways if you think that way.

I've heard people on here scream "racist" when someone black has said something white so that means white people should take it on the chin if they want to have their way and say racist things too

Thats all cool

Until someone gets shot or beat up.

Then what?

Free to shoot people now as well? Yeah I agree with that too. Its all free speech as it means the person who commits the act will do jail time. So yeah, but does that make the site its on also culpable for allowing it in the first place?

People here might complain about the moderation that goes on but there are legal ramifications that come with that freedom , so what was that about free speech again?

Freedom still costs. Nothing is free.

[steve56]

Its very handy if the cds and vinyl are out of reach or N/A been listening to a few radio clips too