let's talk about the dilemma dilemma that i face as youtube channel owner and publisher of
youtube videos youtube obviously is a publishing platform and each of us each youtube creator
each youtube channel owner has a certain platform within which to publish videos
and obviously the size of your platform is going to depend on the number of subscribers you have
and how successful you are at getting your videos distributed by pushed out by the youtube algorithm
and so on but regardless of the size of your platform every youtube owner every youtube channel
owner has a difficulty or a dilemma sometimes you will publish a video that is controversial or that
elicits quite a lot of comment a lot of commentary and when you do that you obviously have a choice
in terms of allowing comments to be published and not allowing or not permitting certain comments to
be published and this is the dilemma that a person faces especially when it comes to a controversial
topic like for example covet 19 pandemics medical stuff vaccinations compulsory vaccinations and so
on this whole area is an area that engenders a lot of debate a lot of opinion heated opinion
strong arguments strong opinions and so on and so forth not only that but there has been core
challenges on the basis of for example the allegation or the contention that people's freedom
is being done away with as a consequence uh as a byproduct of the legislation and regulations that
have been brought in and generally and john waters are obviously high-profile exponents of the legal
system of the court system and their applications to have findings of unconstitutionality against
the various species of legislation brought in have failed and have failed abjectly however there are
other challenges coming and that is perfectly fine that's perfectly understandable that's perfectly
acceptable in a democratic society people will have different opinions and they will sometimes
end up in court looking to challenge those opinions or challenge legislation rather and
put forward their version of events their opinions as being more acceptable or accepted
in the particular issue at hand however when it comes to youtube and youtube channels and
youtube comments and so on a person like me feels or finds a dilemma or faces a dilemma
and the dilemma is this do i publish everything or do i publish some stuff and if i only publish
some stuff that's comments now i'm referring to if i only publish some comments
how do i choose how do i set myself up or operate as a sort of a sensor that's a difficult difficult
task it's a difficult job and it's not one that i feel that i should be doing
but sometimes assertions and statements are made and put forward as facts when in fact do not facts
and they're downright dangerous they're dangerous assertions
so people certainly have a perfect entitlement to their own opinion but they don't have an
entitlement to their own facts and that's where the difficulty and dilemma faces me and other
people who have youtube channels do we allow everything in terms of comments to be published
is there a risk of doing that is there a risk of for example misinforming and misleading people
who may be on the edge and maybe in the middle may have an open mind and who are genuinely
trying to find out information and they are then subjected to and influenced by comments
which are untrue factually incorrect with no basis in data or evidence or science where do i draw the
line it's clear to me in the last while that there is a significant body of people out there who have
very strong views in terms of for example covet 19 in terms of the lockdown in terms
of the government's response to it the state's response to it whether it's a real pandemic
whether it's a flu whether it's that or the other people have their own opinions and that's fine
but the difficulty is when they attempt to wish facts into existence by simply making assertions
and no matter how often you make an assertion no matter in what form we make an assertion no matter
how genuine you might feel about the assertion or whatever you're pulling forward the proposition
you cannot wish facts into existence and therefore it's a difficult situation for the likes of me
publishing videos on youtube because some of us feel an obligation to inform some of us feel an
obligation to put forward the best material that we can by way of facts and argument and so on and
so forth and people are certainly entitled to different views different opinions and so on
but another title is to say to their own facts and that's where the line to be drawn and the
line to be walked by a youtube channel owner is a difficult one because do we as i say at the start
of this video simply allow all comments even though they are absolutely batshit be published
or and perhaps the argument is that conspiracy theorists and people with absolutely delusional
views and opinions are given some outlet to publish them and perhaps that's actually providing
a service even though you may as a channel owner believe that what is being put forward is nonsense
you may actually be i may actually be providing some sort of a useful service in releasing or
allowing those comments to be released because if they're not if they're censored they're going
to be pushed underground and if they're pushed underground then you may have an even greater
difficulty as a society dealing with a lot a huge number or a large number of people who may feel
that there's no voice that they're disenfranchised and so on so anyway it's just an idea that i have
had it's just the dilemma that i face youtube is a fantastic platform it's a fantastic
platform for me and for many other people who have completely diverse views and i respect those views
what i don't accept and don't respect though is the spreading of misinformation with no basis in
science or data or evidence and the difficulty then and the dilemma for me and people like me
with a youtube channel is how do we deal with that in terms of comments do we as i say censor them do
we publish everything do we publish nothing that's difficult that's a difficult question and i'm not
sure about the answer anyway i'd be interested ironically enough in the comment section
to hear from you and to hear your view as to what i should be doing in terms of comments
what i should be doing in terms of assertions and political statements which are clearly untrue with
no scientific or evidential basis and how am i supposed to face this dilemma or deal with it
facebook for example have been heavily criticized in the last number of years about the abuse of
the platform by certain advertisers and certain right-wing groups and certain other groups as well
and yet zuckerberg is saying to house committees in the united states it's up to the politicians to
legislate for this uh we have free speech we have freedom of expression where the israeli line is a
social media company is a private individual like me are we supposed to be some sort of a censorship
board to deal with these types of comments as i say that's the difficulty mark zuckerberg in
facebook the guy in twitter jack dorsey whatever his name is twitter have the same problem
uh all the social media platforms including youtube have the same platform or have same
difficulties and they have taken down many many videos belonging to uh certain people for example
the laura scans videos i understand have been taken down on certain platforms including youtube
that's an element of though that's an example of that type of censorship
what the hell am i supposed to do i mean you know what is an ordinary individual with limited
resources who is just trying to make a living making videos putting them on youtube having
a discussion you know using the platform building something perhaps you know that
in later years they'll be happy with or whatever what are we supposed to do anyway as i say i'd be
interested in hearing your comments in the comment section down below keep them keep them reasonable