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Calling the critics of YouTube's whims 'apologists for the shooter' even in the context of this thread is a dirty rhetorical trick. Nobody is saying the shooter
by psyc 9y ago
Calling the critics of YouTube's whims 'apologists for the shooter' even in the context of this thread is a dirty rhetorical trick. Nobody is saying the shooter was justified.
- jacquesm 9y agoYoutube doesn't have 'whims', it's a company. If you have beef with a company you either take it to court or you take your lumps. You do not go and shoot at the company employees who are just like you dependent on that company for their income, the difference is that they have an employment contract with certain rights and you chose to go for the fame and the glory. There are people here who write that "It was only a matter of time until one of those furious victims took up a gun to get revenge." and that's well into apologist territory.
- psyc 9y agoAs long as you maintain that the argument is about whether violence is an appropriate or in any way justified response to YouTube's conduct, you're arguing against a strawman. Again, nobody is saying that, and they aren't really implying it either, unless you believe that any statement that weakens a good case must be false or regarded as support for the opposing case - again, more of a rhetorical concern than a concern about what is true.
- kamaal 9y ago>>As long as you maintain that the argument is about whether violence is an appropriate He clearly mentioned that YouTube is already doing great service to people by hosting their videos, providing serving infrastructure and content discoverability. The fact that people seem to be, to the extent, expect YouTube to pay them, instead of being thankful to all the free stuff YT provides itself feels wrong here.
- fricat1ve 9y ago>that's well into apologist territory No, no it's not.
- tedunangst 9y ago> There are people here who write that "It was only a matter of time until one of those furious victims took up a gun to get revenge." and that's well into apologist territory. Are they wrong? It's only a matter of time until lots of bad things happen. Still bad, still going to happen.