April 17, 2008
Dear YouTube: Do you approve of “hangthefaggot”?
Dear YouTube:
You know me. I have my own channel on YouTube. I recommend YouTube to everyone I know. I wouldn’t if I didn’t love YouTube, which I do. YouTube is the greatest thing since Al Gore invented the Internet.
But you guys are strictly out to lunch on one thing: You make it absolutely impossible to report abuse.
Oh, I know: If I see an inappropriate video, I can flag it. No problem there.
The problem is that you provide no way, anywhere on the YouTube site, to report cretins like this one:
I found this hateful little lowlife spewing his homophobic filth all over the comments section of a video honoring victims of anti-gay hate crimes.
Here are some examples:
hangthefaggot (15 hours ago)
I remember some dumb liberal fag saying straight marriage is evil and that only fags could be allowed it because they can’t violate marriage. What the hell?!? Fags cheat on their butt buddies all the time and if it wasn’t for straight people, you fags would not have even been born.hangthefaggot (15 hours ago)
Some fags do rape women and little girls. This is because they want to get back at straight people.hangthefaggot (15 hours ago)
You don’t think fags can be promiscuous? Of course they can! They are rarely any fags who have a single butt buddy. They just jump in bed with one fag, get tired of him, and shout “NEXT!”.
There are other equally disgusting remarks, from other equally disgusting imbeciles (e.g.: “lprevatt”: “u r absolutely right, the transexuals or shemales, whatever this things r called, in my opinion they are just weird creatures and they should die . GOD PLEASE, KILL ALL THEM! They spread diseases, they have promiscuos’behaviour. KILL THEM with another disease please!”), but my concern is with this “hangthefaggot” creature.
It’s the username, you see.
Do you approve of this username, “hangthefaggot”? Are there not even the most rudimentary filters in place to prevent such a username from being created in the first place? Could someone conceivably create the username “hangthen****r”? Would it be allowed to stand for at least ten days (the time since “hangthefaggot” first joined YouTube)?
YouTube, I would have been more than willing to keep this issue between you and me, but, as I said, you make it impossible to simply contact you to say, “Houston, we have a problem.”
The only way I can get in touch with you is through an open letter.
So, I ask: Are you going to do anything about this monster that calls itself “hangthefaggot”?
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