Response: Delusions of Conspiracy

Once again we deal with misunderstanding of the rules of YouTube.

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[TrueBlueCrusader]

Seeker your responses have been laughable. "He broke the rules, but it's still purging because people reported it" is basically what you've been saying throughout this exchange.

[SeekerNLife]

I'm thinking that you were probably one of those 'Hall-monitors' in school, who spied on people and ratted them out to the Principle.

You seem obsessed with 'The Rules'.

You seem obsessed with ThePatrioticMaxim.

He has as much right as you do, to Freedom of Speech.

[TrueBlueCrusader]

Of course I know he has a right to say all that he does, I'm not trying to censor him, and I'm certainly not obsessed with the rules.

I'm just sick of the endless stream of individuals who are claiming this is a conspiracy. All I've done is point out that his suspensions are legitmate, and not baseless purging.

[timewilltell83]

omg, enough already. definitely won't be subscribing to this crap aka your dumb videos.

[GamblerJustice]

Alright. It's been fun - I just wanted to know what you were getting at and I'm fairly certain I understand now.

Thanks for your time!

[SeekerNLife]

Specific?

I have been quite specific, actually.

And..."But why does this matter?"

It seems to matter a great deal...to You.

But using underhanded tactics to use the 'Rules' to silence someone's freedom of speech is always disturbing, and backfires really, because it reflects badly on the cause on whose behalf the action is being done.

It's been a hoot, Gambler.

But this is the last time I am replying to your replies, I just don't have the time.

[GamblerJustice]

And I am uncapable of seeing your point if you refuse to be more specific.

If a large percentage of the youtube community hates obama then yes a rule-breaking support Obama video is going to go down faster than one that breaks the rules and spreads hate for Obama.

But why does this matter?

[SeekerNLife]

GamblerJustice,

You keep making my point.

It's the repeated flagging action that alerts YouTube to some infraction in the 'Rules'.

Otherwise, YT wouldn't know that the 'Rules' had been broken, since they don't have time to police all the videos.

[GamblerJustice]

Continued. The point of this video was to point out that there is infact no "youtube conspiracy" idiots can hit the flag button as much as they want because they disagree with your opinions - but it's still not a "conspiracy" unless youtube ignores watching the videos and deletes them just because they were flagged.

[GamblerJustice]

Yes but he still broke the rules. You cannot know whether or not they were flagged because of differing opinions or because people actually wanted them down because of well.. breaking the rules!

You act as if being suspended from a site is some great offense against the freedom of speech just because the reason that the flag button was pressed might have been biased.

If your video gets flagged and you have not broken the rules - you do not get suspended.

[SeekerNLife]

You just made my point.

YouTube would not have known about it, if people had not been engaging in punitive flagging efforts to silence some videos that they didn't agree with.

Like Hall Monitors in school, who would only tattle on the kids that they didn't like...but let their buddies have a pass.

[GamblerJustice]

But the fact that he broke the rules is still the reason he got suspended.

Youtube does not monitor videos, that is true.

But they don't go suspending people just because their videos were flagged - it's the same as reporting someone. They still have to break the rules to be suspended no matter how many times they are flagged.