Not allowing me to spray paint the word fuck on your house is censorship
You have a right to free speech, but you don't have the right to post anything on someone else's server. People will have to make terrible comments from their own blogs or something.
So it's kind of like freedom of the press then? You have freedom of the press as long as you own one.
Yes.
Sure, or the right to free speech but not in my living room.
No, it's kind of like the freedom to kick an obnoxious person out of a private establishment because they are disrupting the other patrons. YouTube is not a government institution.
1. go to wordpress.com
2. sign up
3. post away!
Massive public ownership of presses is pretty much a solved problem at this stage.
If a video owner wants censorship, they've had the option for a long while. At least now there will (I assume) be an option to keep conversation allowed while also keeping things more civil.
About time. If you pee on a strangers carpet, y'ah gonna get smacked. If you write rude and provocative comments on someone's video...