What Happened At #VidConUS 2017? / Sargon of Akkad

Sargon, at 29:32 I really feel the need to say something. I've been subscribed to you for a while, haven't heard all of your videos (yet), but if I had to describe you in one word, that one word would be "gentleman." I am dismayed by the thought that Patreon would want to distance itself from your content. On what possible basis could they object to it? You are reliably civil and reasonable. I hope that doesn't sound like damnation with faint praise, because those are getting to be rare traits. I'll listen to the rest of your video, but I felt the need to say how astonished I was by the treatment you've received and to praise you for the patience and restraint you've shown in your response to this unprovoked abuse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vyvv7P6Ldo&lc=z13ed1ogepqnzz0b304cedwozqe3gtixga0

The Reason Why We Can't Live Forever

This was different. The following comment wasn't merely ghosted. The system wouldn't even let me post it. When I clicked the reply button, the box and the button partially faded out and then came back, but nothing posted. Never a dull moment with Google's software, is there? Though, given the number of Indian names on their staff listings, I must admit that I wonder if somebody might have deliberately built a booby trap into the software in case somebody posted a sentence to be found in the quoted would-be comment below, as an act of prior restraint. If, as I say that, I sound like I'm saying that I don't trust the people at Google to wield their power in an honorable manner, that's only because I don't. This was what I would have said, had I not been blocked.

"This is going to sound cold to some, but I'm going to say it anyway. F**k the Third World. I'm tired, very tired of hearing about what we're morally obligated to give up just because they wouldn't exercise a little restraint in reproducing."

in response to a comment that global overpopulation meant that human beings in the West had no right to want to live past 200. This is where my comment would have appeared

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcqMZ98j2Og&lc=z13ez12rnq2gwv0ic04chpxwxz3fwxtqiw00k

and I stand behind that comment, no matter how it might make somebody in Calcutta or Rio feel. Personal responsibility for personal choices isn't just valid at the individual level, it is valid at the civilizational level as well. Demands from India or China (or people living in those lands) that the West make sacrifice after sacrifice so that the people in their own countries be spared the natural consequences of their spiraling population growth are illegitimate, and as the Western countries currently have birth rates below replacement level, arguments that the West is contributing to that problem are laughable.

Why I can't do one night stands (w/Matthew Hussey) / Anna Akana

This is sad. Anna, you are beautiful, charming, funny, articulate, at the very least faiirly intelligent and young - if only you were not perceived as being a gold digger, you'd never have trouble finding a boyfriend. You'd probably have no trouble finding a husband you'd be pleased with. But you had to be materialistic and refuse to see why that is a problem. You can't be selfish in relationships without that selfishness coming back to you.

See: here. That's where the comment should be visible but, not, it isn't, because management just won't admit that something doesn't work.

Trying To Get Yourself “Summer-Ready" / Buzzfeed Violet

"Attention, Anglo-Saxons: the rest of humanity has discovered this thing called "seasoning." When used on food, it makes it more flavorful, with the result that you don't feel the urge to eat quite so much of it, or the need to douse it with sugar or salt as so many of you do (because they are the only two flavoring agents which you seem to feel can be consumed by respectable people) with the result that with many of you it is a race to see whether a heart attack, diabetes or a stroke will take you out, first. You can learn more about this from practically any other culture on the planet, if the people of any of those cultures are still willing to talk to you on this subject, because you've been absolutely insufferable on it for over a century."


See: here. Yes, Google censored this, too, because I guess we're not allowed to say that filling up on large amounts of bad, oversalted, oversweetened food is unhealthy? At least the mindless bot they have doing the ghosting felt so and (of course) no appeal mechanism exists.

NollaGirl504 / New Changes To My Channel, Addressing Trolls / sigma1932

Sigma1932 started his comment with

"In the spirit of reasonable constructive feedback, yeah, I don't doubt there was plenty of anger thrown at you after that Victor Knight situation, but to be fair, you weren't an innocent bystander there due to your reaction. I'd be interested in reading the full discussion if there's more than what he's letting on, but AFAIK you deleted his comments... if not, let me know, I'll take another look for them in the comments on the other video on my own time."

and then more victim blaming nonsense from him followed, to which I tried to reply, only to thwarted by Google, a company which in this case, can be see shielding somebody who was baiting the victim of harassment and death threats from having his nonsense rebutted. This company just gets classier all of the time. My ghosted comment follows:

"Excuse me? There is nothing reasonable about your feedback. I looked up Victor Knight's OWN ACCOUNT of that initial discussion. Even if we take him at his almost certainly worthless word, he got abusive and she got hostile back. There is a world of difference between starting a fight and fighting back; to say otherwise isn't to be constructive, it is to be passive aggressive, as is your suggestion that she unhide the abuse posted by one of your fellow trolls. "How dare you explode after one of my friends baits you" - such typical troll "logic." Victor Knight's version of events can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrXwtjVLmTU "


Linking to where my comment should be visible

See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVmOK3th0-s&lc=z12agjvzjqvtdhrrx04cgtkzzqr3gnn4jmg0k

As I keep saying, self-regulation has failed in the case of the Internet. One can't even explain Google's actions in terms of rational (if unprincipled) greed. The staff is being evil, just for the sake of being evil.

NollaGirl504 / New Changes To My Channel, Addressing Trolls / Reply to Lowspeed01

In response to a comment about the user "Angry MGTOW" in which somebody said

"How this guy has followers at all I'll never know."

I wrote

"As one of the guy's former followers, I can give one answer - curiosity about what was going through this guy's mind. I think I got an answer a few weeks ago when he posted a video in which he asked his audience if he should have sex with another MGTOW called "Turd Flinging Monkey", talking about how he'd like to have TFM lick peanut butter off of his penis, going on with this fantasy for longer than I was willing to listen. Shortly after that he did a video in which he sounded like he was near the point of emotional collapse over the fact that TFM didn't want to talk to him any more."

As usual, I link directly to the portion of the discussion in which my comment should be visible, and as you can see, it has been ghosted. Why? Because Google feels like it, that's why.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVmOK3th0-s&lc=z13tw1z4bmf2tzwl123wu3gyaqqasxhls

Amy Schumer and Amber Rose Go All in on Masturbation Jokes / Nicolas Costas

+Nicholas An adult woman should feel obligated to obey her mere sibling? I've never heard of such a thing, though I have heard of premarital sex happening in Greece, so so much for "slutty" American women. What if a woman turns out to have better judgment than her brother (and I've seen that happen many times)? Should she be forced to go along with his bad decisions, merely because she was born without a penis? That's absurd.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cue9frSM6EY&lc=z13kslawxtbnfhdto22twt0ogqnfyzy03