AS WELL THEY SHOULD BE: Free Speech Advocates Furious over YouTube Demonetization of Steven Crowder Over Vox Columnist Feeling Insulted.

Related, from Jim Treacher: Steven Crowder vs. Carlos Maza: Is It Really Free Speech If It Hurts Someone’s Feelings?

UPDATE: “Indeed, the ban has already ensnared one undeserving account: Ford Fischer, an independent journalist and co-founder of News2Share.com. Fischer covers fringe political events, but he is not himself engaged in the kind of behavior YouTube has declared verboten. Those who support YouTube taking stronger measures to purge fake news and abuse like to imagine that mere algorithmic tweaks can perfectly eliminate the bad actors. But innocent users like Fischer are bound to wind up inadvertently included.”

Speaking of which, “history teacher Scott Allsop, head of humanities at an international school in Romania, was branded a purveyor of hate speech” by YouTube. Allsop tweets that he was banned “for ‘hate speech’, I think due to clips on Nazi policy featuring propaganda speeches by Nazi leaders. I’m devastated to have this claim levelled against me, and frustrated 15yrs of materials for #HistoryTeacher community have ended so abruptly.”