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I feel like the reference to the San Bruno shooting is detracting from your point. There was one incident still under investigation, and your commment pluralize
by mattnewton 8y ago
I feel like the reference to the San Bruno shooting is detracting from your point. There was one incident still under investigation, and your commment pluralized and generalized from that.
I agree with the sentiment though, I remember during the 2016 election debates in the US, watching the YouTube live comments fill up with Unicode-art swasticas and depictions of people with turbans and bombs being shot at from behind a wall, and just incoherient expletives and slurs peppered in between.
- losteric 8y agoYoutube seems worse because the comments are public and global... but same folks are posting the same bigotry on Facebook.
- joe_the_user 8y agoIndeed - but youtube allows itself to become a public forum for the propagation of this stuff and it's hard not to see that as worse.
- creato 8y agoThe problem seems to be limited to the mega-popular content, and it doesn't really seem that different from news website comments. For niche channels that match my interests (10k-1M views per video), the comments are actually generally fairly pleasant and sometimes interesting.