boo boo

Surely everyone is getting tired of it at this point.

I swear every website I can think of enables it, Youtube especially. You can't make a video about any random thing, and somehow a racist rant figures into the conversation. When it's a video that has anything to do with another race, it's pretty much inevitable that some racist sh*t is gonna go down.

And now everyone wants to be ironic, but when you keep doing it and keep doing it it ceases to be ironic, if you say "******" a few times to get a shock, that's one thing, but when you say words like that obsessively while denying being racist, you have a f*cking problem.

Sexism is a problem too, especially on sites like JJ AM, the closedminded idiots that make up that site's viewership is mindblowing.

The internet really makes me hate people. Because that's where all masks come off, do most of the racist, ignorant, hatespewing evildoers on the internet ever say these things in the real world? F*ck no, because then they would be held accountable.

Anonymity on the internet gives pretty much anyone license to be Adolf Hitler.

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duga

True, but there is absolutely nothing we can do about it unless these sites start banning people for it. Then they will just find another site to spew their nonsense. If websites everywhere started to stop it, then we would get a big "free speech" outcry. I think this is just something we all have to put up with. Seriously, I just avoid reading the comments on Youtube or other such websites. It ends up diminishing my hope for humanity.

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boo boo

That's exactly what Youtube should do. They don't know how to regulate anything at all. Except for when a video uses a 5 second sample of a copyrighted song, then they'll gladly strip away the entire f*cking audio without permission.

C*nts.

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someonecompletelyrandom

I couldn't agree more. They remove for fear of copyright infringement before they'll remove hate-speech. Tells you how much power copyright has these days.

Of course somebody could argue that it's an issue of free speech... to to them I say IT'S THE INTERNET. Anybody in the world can see and use it so free speech doesn't even need to apply. Of course that kind of thinking can easily turn dangerous/corrupt... it's a real dilemma.

lucifer_sam

Well those people that argue that ignore the fact that it's a private institution and is completely entitled to placing whatever rules it wants as far as free speech go. Free speech is free, but whenever you're using someone else's media as a form of publication it becomes restricted to whatever rules they set in place.

It's really not rocket science.

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Freebase Dali

Not that I think the internet should be regulated to the extent of not being able to freely express your ideas using it, but assuming that it's a boundless entity to which all people are entitled and not affected by law is kind of unrealistic. It's not like a case of committing crimes on international waters. All aspects of what makes the internet the internet are governed in an operational extent by the locale in which the web servers, routers, connection links, infrastructures, etc. are governed.
Just because anyone in the world who has access to the internet can use it as a communication medium doesn't mean that a country's policies regarding it don't apply.

James

You're forgetting homophobia people are constantly calling people ***s and other derogetory terms and it's ridiculous.

someonecompletelyrandom

F*gs are just people who ride Harleys. Don't you watch South Park?

lucifer_sam

You have to figure the majority of people that hold these opinions want them heard. What's the point to being sexist and racist if you can't wear it proudly? And if you're into that kind of nonsense, why not spout it at every given opportunity?

The other reason that people tend to be more outspoken is they can get away with it on the internet. What reason would they have to hide -- they don't face consequences like being ostracized for their beliefs. People DON'T go around doing the same thing in real life because they tend to face social consequences for their actions.

I know I do the same thing -- I'm probably more blunt and unapologetic here than in real life because I don't have much incentive to sugar-coat my words. The only difference being that I don't subscribe to radical convictions like those people.

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Akira

So we closing this thread now or shall we wait for the inevitable crash and burn that usually happens?

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