Said normie-baiter was among many engaging in anti cancel-culture cuckery we've witnessed over the past 2 weeks. Before, he's said this line of thought regarding publisher vs platform distinction, that the right only wanting control when they're in power. This point has been made too about boomer moral police and SJWs, at least by other people.
There is a circumstantial difference between supporting the strengthening the DMCA provision of platform vs publisher (right-wing commentators never frame it this way because how unpopular the DMCA is with tech-savvy gen-x/millennials), and the application of cancel culture against leftnuts. Unlike the platform vs. publisher distinction (or Reagan-Right moral panics vs SJW moral panics), there's a general understanding that cancel culture is bad, and that the effective tool we have to fight fire is fire. Hans-Hermann Hoppe calls this estoppel, where an individual or group cannot go back in their word without punishment or ejection. This forum and other places have discussed this point enough in the recent weeks, and I expect most here are already familiar beyond what I've typed up here.
With the anti big-tech platform vs publisher distinction that was being primarily publicized from the 2010s-2022, there was very little acknowledgement of the unintended consequences. Chiefly the loss of freedom of of independent internet hosts, and the ability of big tech companies to hijack these regulatory frameworks. There's also the lack of a bright-line distinction between spam prevention, algorithmic recommendations, and algorithmic meddling in support of the Democratic party. This was the right-wing version of the FCC fairness doctrine progressive weirdos evangelized in the 90s and 00s. Maybe some right-wingers had the eventual goal of dismantling the DMCA, if they even thought about it, when supporting the platform vs. publisher distinction against big-tech, but certainly not the Daily Wire.
This youtuber would be right if he attempted good-faith pursuit of first-principles, in the subject of society/politics/economics. Anyone who believes in the mainstream cases for anti-trust, minimum wage, or EU "prosumerism" does not fit in this category. He's not educating his audience on the intricacies of regulatory capture, and common misconceptions of the general public. He's doing low-effort entertainment on the culture war for views.
P.S. It's asmongold btw. His faggotry has been pointed out here, for example when Sweet Baby Inc. was blowing up and he called them the real racists. There's a dozen personalities you could swap in. He has also pushed the "Jan 6th was obviously inexcusable" narrative fed to him by mainstream media, on a video about Destiny's appearance on Piers Morgan after the assassination attempt. He has since been on my blacklist as background noise for when I'm playing single-player games. Any video essayist gets blacklisted when I I get any whiff of half-way wokism, including "inclusionism is fine" or "I'm not discussing Chris Avelone in a multi-hour video about Kotor 2's story" (the alt-tech revolution, where these slimy fucks are ultimately ostracized from society can't happen soon enough). The important part is the spectrum of superficially counter-culture types pushing and eating these defenses for the status-quo, the Man, or whatever you want to call it.
For a left-wing example of a lenient adherence to rational consistency, take the few commentators on this video defending the access of third-party anti-virus to the Windows kernel, because 'big business being anti-competive = bad'. As I responded in that comment section, this is protectionist nonsense that has gas pump attendants in New Jersey, or anti grocery store liquor laws. At least with the late 90s internet explorer anti-trust suit, there was a goal for a competitive web browser market for an open internet. The competition for Windows Defender is Linux and BSD, not predatory anti-virus software.
There's also my dissatisfaction with common vernacular and it's tendencies towards unsuitable binaries. There's more than one right-wing, and this 'alternative right' are not normies and psychos freaking out over Doom and Judas Priest. I need to read up on Korzybski's general semantics.
If you're still watching/listening to their content, you're hardly blacklisting them. You still receive the content, and they still get the engagement.
No, I blacklisted him within the past 2 weeks for making me listen to "Guys, Jan 6th was super not good". That falls outside my pet peeve of lacking academic rigor, and into willful adherence to The Narrative. His reaction videos were tolerable when the youtube algorithm on my gaming machine isn't feeding me videos I want.
It may be frustrating but you're falling for the purity spiral mentalit
The reason why you want normies like Asmongold around is because he's a GATEWAY into right wing thought, even if he's not right wing per se. You need more people like him than any of the feminist cunt left wing "gamer girls" that infest Twitch and YouTube because he at least puts people on the right wing side of the Overton window.
He's trying to be a gatekeeper. He might act as a gateway by accident.
That's a damning indictment of how far left the overton window has shifted.