Audio influencers on YouTube hiding comments from public view

Two thoughts:

1. YouTube is a for profit company, users naturally use their channel to profit themselves. They are not obligated to commit to free speech, although I would argue that if they can find a way to make that profitable over the long term, they should work towards that goal as that would ensure their business's longevity.

2. Internet culture has devolved into an ugly place where posters feel free to anonymously slag and troll as viciously as they feel entitled to, that said IMO policing one's comment section to dissuade the trolls is a very difficult exercise in walking fine lines, I don't envy anyone with a YouTube channel they are relying on to pay the bills.

I've never had any interest in those influencers type 

People can be horribly mean spirited and are capable of the worst kind of behavior when hiding, like cowards, behind the safety of their computers and phones. I saw an example of this on a Facebook post just a couple days ago where a well known speaker manufacturer innocently posted a picture of their product, on their own profile, inspiring a raving lunatic to come out of the woodwork with some inappropriate remarks of a homophobic nature. Not only should I be allowed to delete this type of comment, there ought to be a button I could press to flush the perpetrator into the local sewer system.

People want the freedoms to behave like scum without recourse. I don’t think so.

@rooze the issue that by flushing that perpetrator you would also be flushing well intended members with valid concerns. If you allow for the deletion of comments then posts will become homogenous and all favorable so what value does that provide when you are only displaying intentionally and artificially skewed commentary?

@carlos269 No. Well intentioned people with valid concerns have a place on public forums, people who spew vile rhetoric or simply can’t or won’t act decently, do not.

I know this is controversial, free speech and all that goes with it, but if I’m investing my time and energy into creating a channel, a community, or whatever it is, and someone just wants to burn it down by being deliberately disrespectful, disruptive, etc, then I should have the right to protect my space and remove them.

Of course if I overreach and start removing comments from people who just don’t agree with me, then I become the problem.