It's pretty clear these guys put more time into complaining about the videos than they did actually watching them.

Pretty much ALL of Hbomb's substantive examples from the video are from CTRL-ALT-DEL which is like ... the worst example imaginable.

Because it's a video specifically about CAD (that's why the video is literally titled "Ctrl + Alt + Del") not webcomics in general. There are some references to other gaming comics and what they generally don't do well but it's preamble for why CAD is the worst. The whole point of this video is to be about Ctrl + Alt + Del and the guy behind it.

And as an aside, really Harris, web comic artists as targets?

No, it's specifically about the CAD guy. He doesn't talk about the other webcomic artists.

These and other extremely sane takes from the guy that brought you an almost 2 hour long video on the goddamn Roblox "oof" sound effect.

I'm curious what other "takes" you think he has if you didn't even realize why the video called CAD primarily talks about CAD.

It's only political because Conservative Christians made it one.

How did you fall for this stupid lie? It literally takes reading one article to realize it's wrong.

Unless you insist on only reading articles from places that push lies and disinformation for some reason.

I don't believe ridicule should be the immediate response. However this comment and its tone is exactly the kind of thing you're bemoaning, but from other direction. The only difference is you're being preemptive about it and basically announcing it at nobody in particular instead of reacting to one person specifically.

The person you're replying to is advocating for encouraging change.

It's not the fact that they're on the internet, it's the fact that being on the internet doesn't inherently make them good.

Of course a boy subconsciously looking for guidance will find these guys and feel inspired or compelled by them. But maturity is the concept of learning from experience and challenging your own understanding in order to be a more balanced and level-headed person tomorrow. You know, exactly what these guys try to stop.

So the only thing these kids can do is embrace growing up, becoming mature, and finding role model figures that champion that instead of ones that peddle the arrested development that these charlatans do.

This started with pointing out the author is a rabid conspiracy crank. His judgement for censorship was that these search engines didn't show the "truth" of his crazy conspiracies about the moon landing and vaccines, and he flat out called actual science and knowledge false.

This isn't a matter of censorship at large and what it means for society. This is simply a crazy conspiracy moron getting mad that his preferred false information is no longer being disseminated and he's mad that actual science is instead.

This guy straight up suggested that he would prefer not seeing science and would instead prefer to see his falsities instead. This isn't a matter of censorship, this is a matter of willful anti-intelligence.

You can claim "but I'm an adult, I can figure things out for myself" but you have to remember: so is everyone else, including all the anti-science, anti-vaxx, MAGA types. They have actively been causing harm for years now and this stops them in their tracks. It's not censorship to throw out junk data and keep proper data. That's just good information hygiene at a certain point. You can still find articles that cover these conspiracy theories on these search engines but you won't get fake news sites purporting lies as truth because the availability of these things has caused more harm to our current, modern society than any amount of censorship has ever come close to.

The idea of the democratization of information has proven to be an abject failure. Unfortunately information does need to be gatekept by arbiters, and we have only proved over and over again for the past decade.

Relying on a single place for all information is also a complete mistake. There's a good reason why every academic study or decent journalism always insists on multiple sources. You can't trust that you'll ever get the picture from one place.

Should search engines not have to do this? Yes. In an ideal world. But we don't live in one, and now we're likening these types of anti-science cranks to the scientific victims of anti-science cranks in the past. What we really learned from the Enlightenment is that those who pursue true knowledge should not be censored and those that reject it should be quieted.

And yes, finding the right people to be arbiters is hard. Yet this fucking guy should absolutely not be the arbiter of deciding what is and isn't censorship.

Because he married an Israeli woman and they have children together, and the family splits their time between the US and Israel.

I'm amazed this page didn't have a featherless chicken labelled "Human"

People get emotionally invested people get in their internet shouting spaces under the actual content.