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Comment Re:There are already dead farms proving you wrong (Score 2) 297

I'm not saying you're wrong, but I thought it was contextually important to note that SourceWatch is a left-leaning source:

The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) is a non-partisan progressive watchdog group led by Lisa Graves. CMD manages this website, SourceWatch.org.

...from SourceWatch's about page

(P.S. pleased that they are open about it. I had never heard of them before, but noticed a trend on some of their entries, so I thought I'd look deeper.)

Comment Crowder (Score 4, Insightful) 134

This is in reference to the recent flap over Steven Crowder's critique of Carlos Maza. Crowder has his lawyer ("half-Asian lawyer Bill Richmond") on indefinite retainer and actively challenging all community strikes, demonetizations, and restricted designations.

He was one of the very few targeted creators with enough resources to challenge YouTube, apparently to such great effect that YouTube has to defend its inability to censor him.

Comment Re:Fine. (Score 1) 351

1) earnest individual with legitimate problem needs accommodation
2) law enacted mandating accommodation
3) policies written by organizations on how to implement lawful rules
4) rules written by businesses according to policies
5) earnest individual enjoys accommodation
6) dishonest individual finds loophole in rules
7) dishonest individuals leverages or exploits rules for self-benefit/self-promotion
8) earnest individual, general public, and businesses bear the [financial | physical | emotional] cost of accommodating the self-serving dishonest individual and their exploits

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