YouTube Drains Intelligence

YouTube may be a major part of the internet's future, but it also promotes ignorance and discrimination at a horrific level. While video content is fairly controlled, the 'Comments' section on each runs rampant every form of prejudice and obscene interjections. In order to provide an example I attempted to curb the ridiculous deficiencies of mind in many of these comments, but I came up with nothing but a string of %$*@ and %&##$@*, including "normal" vulgar language, up to seven racial slurs, Nazi slogans, and often the word 'kill' interspersed within.

Nothing is actually done to discourage this even though it is clearly stated in YouTube's Terms of Use: We encourage free speech and defend everyone's right to express unpopular points of view. But we don't permit hate speech (speech which attacks or demeans a group based on race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status, and sexual orientation/gender identity).

Clearly these are violated on a daily if not by minute basis. I can tolerate the occasional "you're a &#@% %#$%!s" since there is no clause on half-witted behavior, but even so it is clearly a form of hate speech on an individual level (unmentioned by YouTube; they only specify attacks on a group, as seen above). Users have the option to vote "thumb up" or "thumb down" on comments, and eventually, with enough negative votes, the comment will appear minimized. This is a cop out method; rely on other users to moderate themselves. This could easily be solved by erasing posts and/or users with key negative words. Time to step up YouTube.

For these reasons, I despise YouTube.
I admit though, that on a personal level, I am ecstatic that the #@$%s who write these comments spend their life watching moronic behavior on this website and will never be able to find their way out of YouTube.