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I understand your position. There's not a lot of nuance to it. You seem to view the world in shades of black and white. To you, I'm either enabling a free-speech utopia or "banning everyone I don't like".

Reality is a bit more complicated. I'm attempting to fairly enforce the guidelines of a community with many voices. I've said before that unlike many communities, what you say on VideoSift matters, for better or worse. Commenting is not pissing into the wind here. When a comment seems to squarely fall outside of the community guidelines we take notice.



You sound like someone who has some strong ideas about how online communities should work - I'm intrigued by them - and invite you to start your own community with your own set of guidelines (or lack thereof). Until GorillamanSift launches, please adhere to our guidelines or expect us to enforce them.

Cheers.

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The guidelines seem to specifically allow my comment - "It's okay to criticize ideas..."

You wrote them, you're free to interpret them however you want. I think I've tried to convince you in the past that you're following the wrong course here by banning everyone you don't like. You censor your site, the other guy does the same with his, on and on and pretty soon the entire internet is ruined. Can you even name a single place left in the world, online or otherwise, that allows real freedom of speech? No, not even 4chan.

This is a really important tool we're using right now, which represents a colossal step forward for our species. Consider whether my ideas are so terrible that you're willing to drag that step back a little.

Regardless, I've made comments like that before and I'll make them again in the future, unless you force me to stop. These thoughts are my identity and I have to express them. Do you want every interaction on the site to degenerate into sterile, polite small talk?

I can't allow myself to be subject to censorship and, with respect, can only ignore your warning.

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Hi gorillaman - this is an official warning. Your comment is in violation of the Sift guidelines here. Further abuse may lead to suspension and/or permanent bannination. Thanks.

In reply to this comment by gorillaman:
So stop pretending jews are human beings.

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Hi gorillaman - this is an official warning. Your comment is in violation of the Sift guidelines here. Further abuse may lead to suspension and/or permanent bannination. Thanks.

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So stop pretending jews are human beings.

In reply to this comment by gorillaman:
You know, you have a much clearer understanding of fantasy than reality.

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Au contraire. I have a perfect understanding of both.

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Thanks for your feedback. I disagree.

In reply to this comment by gorillaman:
You're making the world worse.

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Hi there. This is a non-expiring official warning for your ad hom comment. Please attack the idea, not the person. Thanks

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You bag of shit. Show some respect.

In reply to this comment by gorillaman:
>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

To those on this site that like to throw around 'fag' and 'gay' in a derogatory manner, maybe it's time to grow up a little. Even if you don't mean any harm, you still contribute to the kind of ignorant American culture that causes things like this to happen. Stop it.

Horseshit. Maybe don't exploit the death of a child to push your suppressive ideology.



WOW HAHAHAHA I point at you and laugh. Yes because telling people to stop casually spewing out hate words is 'suppressive ideology'. Yes I suppose if this is OPPOSITE WORLD, and wanting to make the planet a little more accepting and tolerant is 'suppressive ideology'. hahahha There is no exploiting the child's death here, which is a hilarious deflection tactic to divert attention from a very VALID and pertinent point about stopping the use of hate words.

Those that can't give up on calling people 'fag' and 'gay' or 'pussy', or similar words are perpetuating suppression against those groups. Those are suppressive words and used in a negative manner. The people telling you to stop being ignorant and become a little more socially aware aren't 'suppressing' you, they are informing you of your ignorance that you need to do something about. That isn't fun to be told, so it is understandable that people lash back, wanting to defend their use of such words. Those words are used to imply that being a 'fag' or 'gay' or a 'pussy' is a bad thing. Fag is used as a hate word. And there is nothing wrong with being gay, and pussies, as in vaginas, are great. I love them. I never insult the pussy. mmmmm pussy. There isn't anything wrong with having a pussy, and nothing wrong with being female.

I always laugh at the completely average, run of the mill, scared to think 'outside the box' of their ignorant social groups/unbringing, people I've met who simply can't NOT say those words. It is laughable. And even when they are informed what these worlds do, how hurtful they can be, how ignorant and stupid they appear/are for using such words, they STILL insist on saying them because it makes them neurologically comfortable.

Go call a bunch of black guys 'nigger' and tell us how they suppressed you when told you to shut your ignorant face. Or of course you could always continue to parade your ignorance to the world rather then do something about it.

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I love the 'driver's education film' yellow-ness about it.

So you're saying this is roughly the same results you'd get from any sampling of Americans?

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Maths.

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How should we have already known? How did you already know?

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It took a while, but dead video replaced.

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*dead

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