Posts by Craig Ranapia
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Spelling is a fascist hegemonic construct imposed on the oppressed by bourgeois enablers! So there! :)
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Robyn that is interesting. Kind of like a "hey dick, shut up" comment moderation system.
Heh... I'm sure YouTube would say they're enhancing the interactivity of the YouTube experience in response to feedback from the user community.
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And just to be trivial for a moment:
coming back via the Dowse to view the Philip Treacy hats (I was bored, but, then, I am a boy …).
Aaargh... if you said you were going, I'd have given you some money to pick me up a copy of the catalogue. Hats may be boring, but Isabella Blow - who was a mentor/muse to some rather intriguing people in the British fashion scene like Treacy and Alexander McQueen - was anything but. The Brits may have lost the Empire, but they can still produce world-beating eccentrics.
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So Craig, rather than talking about Jennifer Hudson and p0rn spammers here, can I just ask for your honest opinion about NZNat banning this guy based on the comments he made?
I wouldn't do it, just as I'd have advised Francis Till not to give The Standard publicity or any grounds to fatuously play free speech martyr.
And I'd also have said that any video posted to YouTube should have the comments disabled and a e-mail address for feedback provided.
BTW, Damien, thought the post was entirely cogent and reasonable - and it's fair comment to say the Nats (or at least one individual) needs to get a little smarter about the nature of the medium. But there is a reason I don't visit YouTube to read the comments - because the crap/quality ratio is near 100:0.
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And I understand anyone who uploads video to YouTube has to the option of disabling comments entirely - would that also be 'crushing speech'? Serious question - because I know I/S got exactly that kind of criticism for turning off comments at No Right Turn and, in the end, I think that was completely unjustified. First, it was his call - and sadly have to agree that (to paraphrase Charlie Brooker) the bullshit-to-insight ratio was far too high. And second, there is no inalienable human right to post comments to any blog.
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But that's The Brand.
Really? For reasons you don't need to know about, I went looking for video of Jennifer Hudson performing 'And I Tell You I'm Not Going' and the comments were eye-wateringly scary. Let's just say Ms. Hudson has passionate fans, equally passionate detractors and putting them in a room would be messy. A more pressing issue for YouTube would be gettting rid of the p0rn spammers - if I wanted to read that kind of stuff I'd just turn off the spam filter on my e-mail. :)
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If you post videos to public places that aren't yours, like youtube, you should expect that people might comment on them. And it's up to youtube, not your own delicate political sensibilities, if they get moderated.
Fair point, just as I'll defend any blogger who allows comments to leave up ones I personally find offensive to my 'delicate sensibilities' - political or otherwise.
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Do have some inside knowledge of upcoming plots then? ;-)
No, I just think there are any number of bloggers in Fiji, Myanmar, China (I could keep going) who much better cases to play the victim than the chaps over at The Standard. I say this from experience (and having just polished my tiara): You don't have to be a total drama queen to be a poli-blogger, but it helps. :)
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I've just posted a story over at Cracker about a guy who got banned from commenting on the Nat's YouTube videos simply because he didn't agree with them.
OK, should I start counting up the posts on PAS complaining that Kiwiblog is a cesspit of bigoted fucktards and David Farrar doesn't ban people enough?
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People on the public payroll should not use copyright to try and quell speech.
Certainly not, but 'people on the public payroll' should be damn careful about the copyrights of others. I recall the Conservatives in Britian getting a strongly worded 'nastygram' from lawyers acting on behalf of Massive Attack after "The Man Next Door" was used without clearances being secured as an accompaniment to William Hague's entrance at the 2000 party conference.
I think you can guess I'm with the dirty hippie musos on that one...
And could you tell me exactly how Francis Till was trying to "quell speech"? Methinks there's a certain amount of drama queen faux outrage on both sides. WTF is Key's office giving a Labour hack blog publicity in the first place? And perhaps The Standard could spare us the 'our dissent iz being crushed!' routine until it actually is.
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