As Twitchy readers know (hopefully!), Ted Cruz came out to defend Steven Crowder when YouTube caved to an angry progressive ‘journalist’ named Carlos Maza who got his fee-fees hurt and not only got Crowder demonetized but hurt the livelihoods of dozens of other YouTubers.
Seems Carlos didn’t like Ted defending Crowder … shocker, we know.
A U.S. senator is coming to the defense of someone who spent two years calling me a “lispy queer.”
They do this because they know that @YouTube cares more about looking fair to right-wingers than it does about stopping hate speech and harassment. https://t.co/c7Fp1oOGWr
— Carlos Maza (@gaywonk) June 6, 2019
Carlos just doesn’t get it.
And PLEASE stop pretending YouTube caters to the right, this is almost as stupid as claiming Facebook and/or Twitter cater to the right. Nothing could be further from the truth.
He continued.
Conservatives have spent years arguing that even basic content moderation is a form of “censorship.”
Their goal is to scare platforms like @YouTube away from enforcing their hate speech policies.
And it’s working, because YouTube doesn’t have the guts to protect its creators.
— Carlos Maza (@gaywonk) June 6, 2019
Getting demonetized because Carlos got his feelings hurt is censorship.
Not to mention, when the Left pretends they can define ‘hate speech’ as anything and anyone who disagrees with them … that’s just another form of censorship.
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You can’t give these people an inch.
They won’t stop crying “liberal bias!” until they’re allowed to use hate speech with impunity.
And that’s exactly what @YouTube is allowing them to do.
— Carlos Maza (@gaywonk) June 6, 2019
Speaking of not giving these people an inch, YouTube really screwed up here.
Ted responded to Carlos, which is really the only reason we bothered to cover his thread (we’re pretty sure even our readers are tired of him at this point):
Sigh. This individual claims to be a “journalist.” Then he throws a fit & demands that YouTube CENSOR views he doesn’t like. Here’s a crazy idea: if you don’t like what @scrowder says, ARGUE AGAINST HIM. Make your case in what John Stuart Mill called the “marketplace of ideas.” https://t.co/uzhMqz3lv5
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) June 6, 2019
Wait, debate? ARGUE IDEAS?! Crazy talk, senator.
— Harold Stickeehans (@StickeeNotes) June 6, 2019
Or just don’t watch his videos. What a concept.
— Mark “BBQ addict” C ?? (@UntraceableMC) June 6, 2019
Change the channel. What a concept.
The?terms?of?service?are?made?up?as?they?go.
— CynicalVampire (@SpillMyTincture) June 7, 2019
Isn’t that convenient?
Damn, but senator Cruz, that would require facts and statistics and possibly talking to the opposition. That sounds pretty scary.
— Rowdy Texan #freespeech #IamaNationalist (@RowdyTexan84) June 6, 2019
And goodness knows feelings matter more than facts to Carlos and his supporters.
Sad, but true.
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