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Re:Magazine publishers with video ambitions see YouTube as s... by mattnewton on Saturday May 19, 2018 @12:06AM (#17106608)
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.

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Re:Magazine publishers with video ambitions see YouTube as s... by losteric on Saturday May 19, 2018 @12:18AM (#17106633)
Youtube seems worse because the comments are public and global... but same folks are posting the same bigotry on Facebook.
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Re:Magazine publishers with video ambitions see YouTube as s... by joe_the_user on Saturday May 19, 2018 @02:14AM (#17106875)
Indeed - 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.
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Re:Magazine publishers with video ambitions see YouTube as s... by creato on Saturday May 19, 2018 @03:14AM (#17106982)
The 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.
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