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PewDiePie Calls Out the 'Old-School Media' For Spiteful Dishonesty
New submitter Shane_Optima writes: After losing his Youtube Red show and his contract with Disney, the owner of the most subscribed channel on Youtube, Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg (aka "PewDiePie"), has released a video response to the Wall Street Journal and other mainstream news outlets, who have labeled his comedy videos variously as racist, fascist or anti-semitic. In it, he accuses the mainstream media of deliberately fabricating and misrepresenting the evidence used against him because they are afraid of independent content producers such as himself. In the video, PewDiePie discusses the recent actions of the Wall Street Journal, whose reporters sent nine cherry-picked and edited videos to Disney, which led directly to Disney's decision to terminate their relationship with him. These video clips and others used to "prove" PewDiePie's guilt have been edited (he claims) to remove all context, to the extent of using a pose of him pointing at something as a Nazi salute and using a clip where other players are creating swastikas in a game and editing out the part where he is asking them to stop. The most-cited video in the controversy involves seeing if he can use the site Fiverr to hire someone to create a video containing an over-the-top message for a mere $5. After a couple of laughing males unfurl a sign saying "Death to All Jews," he recoils with widened eyes and sits, apparently dumbfounded, for another thirty seconds before the video ends, without him uttering another word.
PewDiePie's video comes several days after a Tumblr post where he attempted to clarify that the videos were intended to be comedy showing "how crazy the modern world is." He has not yet used the phrase "fake news" in his response to the controversy, but given the current trends surrounding that phrase, it isn't surprising that his supporters are resorting to it frequently. Is this all just another unfortunate instance of collateral damage in the war against far-right political movements, is it a campaign of malicious retaliation by old media that is terrified of new media (as Felix claims), or was J.K. Rowling correct when she called out PewDiePie as a Death Eater? Err, I mean, ...as a fascist?
Update: Apparently, canceling his Youtube Red series was deemed an insufficient response. Youtube has now removed the mirror of PewDiePie's "Death to All Jews" video because it "violates Youtube's policy on hate speech." The original posting of the video had already been marked private by PewDiePie shortly after the controversy erupted. A quick check of Vimeo and Daily Motion came up empty, so you're on your own if you wish to find out for yourself what the controversy was all about.
PewDiePie's video comes several days after a Tumblr post where he attempted to clarify that the videos were intended to be comedy showing "how crazy the modern world is." He has not yet used the phrase "fake news" in his response to the controversy, but given the current trends surrounding that phrase, it isn't surprising that his supporters are resorting to it frequently. Is this all just another unfortunate instance of collateral damage in the war against far-right political movements, is it a campaign of malicious retaliation by old media that is terrified of new media (as Felix claims), or was J.K. Rowling correct when she called out PewDiePie as a Death Eater? Err, I mean, ...as a fascist?
Update: Apparently, canceling his Youtube Red series was deemed an insufficient response. Youtube has now removed the mirror of PewDiePie's "Death to All Jews" video because it "violates Youtube's policy on hate speech." The original posting of the video had already been marked private by PewDiePie shortly after the controversy erupted. A quick check of Vimeo and Daily Motion came up empty, so you're on your own if you wish to find out for yourself what the controversy was all about.
It would be huge. Bigly even.
He is apparantly suprised that broadcasting a sign with "Death To All Jews" on it would get him fired.
I can't think of many places where you wouldn't get fired for that sign.
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Anyone with any sense of intellectual integrity can clearly see that it was all satire. They can also see through the dishonesty of the media. This is just a taste of what the media has been doing politically. Regardless of how you feel about the current POTUS, these tactics are exactly the same tactics used against him from the MSM.
Follow the dollars. This stuff generates clicks. It gets people to read their stories. They do it because they get money for it. Hopefully at some point soon this type of "journalism" dies down.
I am disgusted by this article, almost as disgusted as I am at myself taking the time to respond to it.
PewDiePie is a professional attention whore and it is fascinating to watch him ply his craft. This latest response is perfectly timed, just as the flames were dying down he fans them and gets another round of attention.
He is a troll and like any troll the way to defeat it is by ignoring it.
That was the first PewDiePie I've watched, and it's interesting to see the media do to him what they've done to Trump, Farage, Wilders, Le Pen, Orban, etc. The media no longer report the truth, they report their own narrative. They fabricate evidence in an effort to influence people's views.
The media used to be able to control the narrative, but having lost control they're redoubling their efforts to control what people think, which means more attacks against people they disagree with and more fabrications. This is having the opposite effect, and is only serving to turn more people away from the mainstream media.
Traditional media knows it's in trouble but appears to be so out of touch with the public that it doesn't know what to do about it, so the attacks, the lies and the fabrications continue. The sooner the media collapses, the better.
Wait, actions have consequences?
Most people learn this in their childhood. Mr. Pie, it was time you learned it too, and that some things you don't joke about.
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But a very carefully targeted one. The people who get ridiculed have to really deserve the dickish treatment. You can take a cheap shot, but you can never punch down.
Now I've seen the infamous video and I totally get it. It's a good point, but it totally fails as satire because he ended up screwing with, and then harming the guys in the video, who almost certainly have no idea the significance of what they're doing. How many Jews are in India? About five thousand individuals out of a billion. Zoroastrians are almost 30 times more common in the US as Jews are in India, particularly rural India.
Now he's totally right that the media is stupid, block-headed and hypocritical, and has neither the ability nor inclination to understand him. But that doesn't change the fact he attempted satire and failed. That makes him, at least in this incident, just a dick.
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Context is everything and lacking context your statement is a lie. The guy made a couple satires based on claims of him being a , not a normal staple on his channel. The allegation was that since some white racist like him he must be racist. That beauty should sound familiar right? By the way, some Muslim extremist likes your post, so you have to be a homophobic anti-Semite.
The "take offense at everything" generation has ensured that the overwhelming majority of comedians will not perform on a Campuses. But hey, enjoy Amy Schumer shows ever week because a white chick insulting men and pretending to be a slut is comedy everyone can enjoy for an eternity right?
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
Just chasing eyeballs to sell to advertisers, exactly like he was.
You know who doesn't get the irony of fighting fascism with fascism?
The leftists.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
He already *HAS* millions. He doesn't need any more. Maybe his 15 minutes of fame are over.
Why is fucking 'PewDiePie' even showing up on Slashdot? Again. There was an article about him just a couple of days ago. Nobody. Fucking. Cares about this asshole. Can we please give it a rest?
The generation who pounded every fascist in Europe into the ground or until they surrendered taught their 10 year old sons how to shoot rifles, routinely drank while driving, smoked cigarettes ubiquitously, expected women to be feminine and subservient to their husbands, and threw around racial slurs both with and without hate. If it were up to GP's SJWs to stop the Nazis, we'd have run out of Jews a very, very long time ago.
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Do this. Do this more often. Exactly this.
your thin skin doesn't make me a troll
Submitter here. And the gloves are off, FYI.
This is a bizarre little trick, apparently some weird leftover piece of Cold War propaganda, that any time a topic has anything to do with the free market you can point that out and a significant minority of people will believe you've just "won" the discussion and will mod you up, even if you're rambling irrelevant drivel. (It works on Reddit, too.)
Congratulations, Disney and Youtube are legally free to do as they choose. No, the first amendment doesn't constrain them. Are we done with the kindergarten version of Civics now?
There appears to be widespread *lying* about the nature of the videos in question, characterizations that are so brazen as to be actual lies by mainstream media organizations like the Wall Street Journal, Wired, The Independent, etc. This is on top of the WSJ actually going out of their way to get PewDiePie "fired" by mining and editing his content and then sending it directly (from my understanding) to Disney.
I think that alone is all worth talking about. If dishonest and manipulative newspapers don't interest you at all, well there's the door. Bye.
But there's even more: to the extent that companies like Youtube and Disney are being pressured by asshats writing letters and threatening boycotts, I'd even go so far as to say it's worth discussing trying to pressure them in the opposite direction. Not because I'm a huge PewDiePie fan (I'm not; I've watched only a few of his videos), but because the internet is being dominated by a small group of companies and it's worth a little effort to push back now, while we still can, and inform them that free speech for their platform (not just our constitution) is what we actually want.
Just listen to this smug shit coming out of the WSJ and put that in the context of the thousands of Youtubers trying to figure out Youtube's uncodified content policy so their videos won't be de-monetized. Put that in the contest of the millions of Youtube users who just want their favorite hosts to be able to speak their mind uncensored. The WSJ doesn't care about all of that. They only care about media giants being able to dictate acceptable content with an iron fist.
Does that violate the first amendment? Again, no. Is this capitalism at work? Again, yes. You're such a good, smart little anti-Communist for reminding us of these things!
But us talking about it and getting a bit pissed about it and wondering aloud if there's any way to pull the brake on this shitshow before it gets any worse is also capitalism at work. If that's a conversation that doesn't interest you--there's the door. Vote with your feet, citizen.
> He is apparantly suprised that broadcasting a sign with "Death To All Jews" on it would get him fired.
Actually, he's surprised that his other video about the media taking things out of context would itself be taken out of context to prove that he was some kind of Nazi.
Even in the original video, in which he was dismayed to find out that someone would actually do those things for a few bucks, he says that he's not proud of this and apologizes to the viewers because he didn't think the people he hired on Fiverr would actually do those things.
But I bet you didn't actually look at any of that, and now the videos are marked as private. The best I can find now is this discussion by a friend of his.
This is akin to bitching that you don't like Snowden because he wears ugly glasses and has a boring face.
I'm the submitter. I don't watch PewDiePie videos. I think I watched only two in my entire life before today. This is serious news. He is the biggest name on Youtube (like it or not), and these are some of the biggest names in mainstream news lying about him, engaging in an open campaign to get him fired (WSJ went directly to Disney, from my understanding), and then they casually, lazily, openly discuss about how their motive in all of this was that they want to see online media giants dictate acceptable content with an iron fist instead of this willy-nilly free speech bullshit that makes old media nervous.
When the hell did Slashdot turn into goddamn TMZ? Who cares who you like or don't like? This. Matters.
I'll agree that what Pewdiepie did was crass and tasteless, but I would think that his apology (which he gave in that very video...) would cover it.
Speaking of which, you yourself have used more than a few crass racial stereotypes right here on Slashdot. Would you think it was fair if all the newspapers tomorrow were calling you a closet racist and calling on people to shun you. I seem to remember you making satirical statements pretending to be racist as well, but I won't quote you out of context to make a point (a courtesy, I note, that was not extended to Pewdiepie, when in a fit of irony they used "examples" from his video about taking things out of context out of context).
So I have to ask, will you answer for your own crass racial stereotypes before you throw stones at another?
Bullshit - I was 8.
He taught you to hate fascism so rigorously that you've become something of a fascist yourself about it.
Gads, I hope he has passed on so there is no chance he could see what a fuck you are here on Slashdot.
Both what you say and what he says is happening and the is so much noise in the signal that it is hard to tell what is happening when.
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... in that I never heard of it before and don't give a shit now that I have.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
Except that he's not from America, so....
I'm not "defending guns". I'm giving my personal history. I'm a gun owner for nearly 40 years and I still believe in strict background checks for owning guns, and in the right of local communities to make their own gun laws. Most of the gun owners I know feel the same.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Do I care?
I think not.
He's male. He's white. He's likely not gay or transsexual. And he's not a member of the leftists.
In this day and age, would you ever need any more proof that he's a sexist, racist nazi scum?
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Say something really stupid in public- a few times. Get called on it by The Media (because you *are* a public figure), call The Media on their anti-stupidity bias.
While you are talking about a time before your parents were born in order for you to get up to your usual goalpost shifting troll antics I am talking about the present.
It appears I should have looked at the username - the stalker is back! What is it now - twelve articles or only nine?
> You think it makes it better because he paid someone else to make jokes about killing Jews?
It's because he was using it as an example of something terrible. That's the joke: people will do something terrible for $5. That means that he thinks telling Jews to die is terrible. Which it is.
Is that so hard to figure out?
That's bollocks.
The "America First Committee" was a pacifist anti-war movement. It was supported by people who later became president, and a number of progressive socialists. They actively pushed anyone anti-semitic off the board because that was not the organisation they wanted to be.
They weren't pro-fascist. They were just against US involvement in the war.
> Except that's not what happened at all. He paid them to say words that they had no understanding of.
Can you explain to me what gave you that impression when he wrote an English request on an English website regarding an offering that was posted there in English?
Because you can clearly read the request in English right at the start of this video (the original is dead now). And you can see their request. In English.
While you're at it, would you explain why you seem to have assumed that these people don't understand English? Because that sounds like a pretty mean thing to assume about some random brown kids, but hey, I'm willing to at least listen to your explanation.
It's incredible the level of deception(and or ignorance) that sites like WSJ, Wired and others are doing.
It really makes one think about what they are doing to news where they are the only source of information.
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You know who doesn't get the irony of fighting fascism with fascism?
The leftists.
You know who doesn't understand what Irony is... You.
Or leftism and/or fascism.
By definition, a fascist cant be a leftist as Fascism is an extreme right political philosophy, The left equivalent of Fascism is called Communism and ironically enough... they are the traditional enemies of fascism. It wasn't the west Hitler wanted to conquer, it was Russia where he sought his Lebensraum.
Also, those who defeated the Nazi's like Churchill and Eisenhower were actually very left of where today's politicians are. They would be left of Obama and Blair, definitely left of Cameron, May, Turnbull and Bush... and extremely left of Trump.
The irony is, you've gone so far towards the extreme authoritarian right, you don't even know what the left is anymore.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
He taught you to hate fascism so rigorously that you've become something of a fascist yourself about it.
Gads, I hope he has passed on so there is no chance he could see what a fuck you are here on Slashdot.
I saw nothing fascist about what Pope Ratzo wrote.
He just pointed out that the GP's post contained nothing from reality, much like your post.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
I'm not "defending guns". I'm giving my personal history. I'm a gun owner for nearly 40 years and I still believe in strict background checks for owning guns, and in the right of local communities to make their own gun laws. Most of the gun owners I know feel the same.
And the vast majority with the politics your defending would feel the same.
The problem you detractors have is that they need to turn it into an all or nothing us-v-them debate without realising that many of the people they're talking about don't want bans, just sensible restrictions. I'm an Australian and a former gun owner, no horror story there, but moving made it easier to sell them rather than keep them. If I feel the need to squeeze off a few rounds, there are plenty of places I can do that, so I have no desire to see guns banned.
The problem is, this kind of thinking is the kind of thing the OP hates because it depolarises the issue. I'm a centrist (which makes me a leftie in the eyes of the extreme right), so for me (and possibly you) to support gun ownership is something that needs to be stamped out in order for me to fit into their world view.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
One can be a fascist and not being racist, in fact many in the Italian movement were neither racist nor anti-semitic.
Absolutely. AntiFa are the embodiment of this. They may be fascist authoritarians but I would never suggest they were racist. In fact they go to great lengths not to be.
My mention of their policy here was mainly to show that they wanted to distance themselves from Nazi sympathisers
OK OK.. i fyou put your self in questionable situations you must expect negative outcomes, especially when dealing with content that you cannt control. As a typical Mellineal (ya i dont care if its spelled wrong) you attempted to force your views and perceptions on others, only to have them interpreted and acted upon.. it seems your buthurt about some questionable activities that you were involved in, someone got offended, made a rebuttal (although not the best in the world, its still a response) At the time, Germans thought Hitler was the Shiznit, untill we kicked his ass and exposed the truth.. In this case,, your messed up humor was responded to in a way you obviously did not appreciate. Is that any bad or worse than you pro-porting the inital posting that started all of this?? Just because you see it as funny, the rest of the werld may not share your NARROW VIEW of whats considered comedy.. To compound further, if others in YOUR industry also share and join in on the comments, perhaps they may have a point.. Give it up, your humor was taken out of context and mutilated into the vision of what MANY OTHERS SAW IN YOUR HUMOR. Part of being an adult, and living in an adult world included accepting when YOUR WRONG trumpey is a good example. Once he realized the whole travel Ban was a joke, and others pushing him into that thought process, he finallyu shut up and wil decide on another route, at least he shutup..Admit-it you were wrong, and/or your artwork was not taken as YOU intended, Boo HOO. Be an adult admit your mistake and either correct it, or move on. What may be humor to some may naught b 2 others..Best wishes on your re-programming
The problem with this argument is that it's anti-free-speech. You are saying that once a service becomes popular, once the inertia sets in, that service must be forced to publish and force to silence its criticism.
No I'm not. I've explicitly refuted this straw man like twenty different times now in every way I can think of, but it keeps rising from the dead.
Are you suggesting that YouTube Red and Disney should be forced to continue paying him?
No, I'm suggesting these legions of people (like you) who are trying to shut down debate, analysis, criticism, and talk of boycotts[1] by conflating it with arguing that Youtube should be legally forced to not censor people are being intellectually dishonest asshats.
why not also require PDP to host material from other channels on his own?
This is taking an argument that "it would be a bad thing if phone companies could start censoring who I talk to and what we talk about" and trying to refute it by asking "well, why not force you to make *your* phone public use to everyone who wanders by?"
This is nonsensical. There is an obvious distinction between a general-purpose communication platform and a user of that platform. Also, see above. No one in this entire thread, as far as I can see, is arguing that Youtube should be legally compelled to host any content... but it does not then follow that there is no point in ever criticizing any of their decisions.
It's also worth pointing out that PDP hasn't actually been kicked off YouTube
There's a wider context here of Youtube's banning policies and demonetization policies, which are mostly subjective and have been enforced more and more in recent months. Advertisers, it's worth noting, cannot opt out of Youtube's de-monetization decisions. If you want to advertise on a video which has been demonetized, you can't. (You'd have to post a new version of the video and roll your own advertising system from scratch, which is unrealistically cumbersome for the majority of producers and advertisers.) This is an important issue worth talking about, and talking about it does not mean one supports the government making it illegal for Youtube to act this way, nor does it mean one necessarily likes or supports PewDiePie.
Also, there's the tiny, tiny side issue here of journalistic integrity.
1. Not that I'm thrilled about the prospects of these being successful, but if it stood any chance of succeeding I would of course be for it, because only reason why some advertisers care about this stuff is because the people on the other side of this war have already conducted many successful boycotts in the past.
You win another game against the guy you keep attempting to bully by moving the goalposts to something that wasn't being discussed!
Another ego boost for the guy whose life is so empty that he need to do this shit!
It wasn't about wars, it wasn't about Egypt, it wasn't about Syria, it wasn't about Jorden - it was about the Palestinians.
Now could you please get off your Dad's account and find something better to do than mindless stalking?
There are more than two people on the internet.
Also why assume being gay is a get out of free card? Like everyone else most gay people are perfectly alright but there are utter bastards and outright criminals among them like any other group. Milo what's-his-face is an alt-right woman hating gayboy pushing that slang to the group of woman hating gays in his audience so it's a perfectly valid description of terms that are so fucking hard for the rest of us to work out from what he's going on about.
South park has gone there and it's still on the air!
hey All, I appreciate the supporting comments, but not at the expense of others.. Just because I don't agree with the positions of some, does not mean they are wrong, nor I, it just means we disagree. But before someone attaches blame for this to me, let's be professionals and move on to bigger and better things..
you pick on the weak and on the downtrodden. It is propaganda.
Spectacularly well put. Thanks.
Who the frack is this individual anyhow?
And why do I even want to know?
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
I'm sure if you squint reeeeeaaally hard, you can convince yourself that Charles Lindbergh wasn't an antisemite. But you won't convince me.
Disney's audience is largely made of very young children, some of whom are Jewish. Those children are not mentally developed enough to understand why the "Death to all Jews" sign in PewDiePie's video is not actually directed at them.
Disney made the right move in ending the plans involving PewDiePie. He's not appropriate for their audience.
Your comment is pure facile rabble-rousing virtue signalling. Mindless partisanship is destroying this country: please refrain from adding to that problem.
Those who advocate genocide deserve every protection afforded by law, and none afforded by common human decency.
With that amount of views and subscribers, why would he want to be on something as restricted as national TV?
I guessed that Slashdot was tracking IPs (have read some comments at different points which seemed to indicate so) and also that it was a known issue. Although I don't post anonymously (neither care about my privacy too much), I do understand that some people might be interested in all this. Here you have my contribution to raise more awareness.
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What PewDiePie should do is file a copyright lawsuit! :) Maybe he would get an understanding judge to put his foot (gavel) down against "unfair use", and perhaps even stem the tide of the digital lying we find ourselves in these days. I mean, surely I can't edit a "Star Wars" video so that it looks like storm troopers are slaughtering innocent Jews in a camp and then expect it to stay up on the Internet video sites without Disney complaining.
It seems like the top issue here, assuming Pew-Die-Pie was actually attempting some sort of social commentary on Fiverr, is that Pew-Die=Pie, the guy normally known for juvenile play-throughs of bad games and some sort of jumpscare show, was way out of his comfort zone in a sad attempt at some sort of messaging. Or put another way: if you want to to deliver an important message, maybe who you are by reputation and how you do this matters.
It's funny that you make accusations of racism while, without evidence, assuming that these people must not know things because of their skin color and where they live.
Even if we suppose, without evidence, they didn't know what a Jew was, could they not figure out 'death'? Could they not look things up? Or maybe just run Google translate on the request if they don't know that much English?
The full text is right there above my post in the earlier post for everyone to see, so of course not, nothing at all similar.
You are the second person to take me to task on this sort of triviality in the last few days when I've never had that sort of criticism before that in more than a decade on this site.
Is this some sort of recent fad that comes from a different site where posts are displayed in a different way or are you the same person and you have decided to go AC?
Because the Twitter/Youtube economy is about clicks and views, regardless if you find the content compelling or appalling. Trump got the White House in part because his Tweets got him so much free publicity - news media making his Tweets into front-page stuff while his GOP opponents wasted their time and money trying to go it old-school.
That's only part of the reason. Trump got elected because his political program could fit into a series of tweets, Build a wall, Ban Muslim immigration, More taxes for companies that manufacture abroad. His opponents lost because their responses were more nuanced, requiring sentences or even whole paragraphs to clarify. Under the rules of politics today, if you can't tweet it, then it's not a good solution to the problem at hand.
Deja vu: In the 80s we had a 70ish actor as POTUS, a woman PM in the UK, and a bald leader of that other nuke superpower
Well, Youtube has apparently gone a step further and has taken down the mirror of PewDiePie's video because it violates their policy on hate speech. A quick search on Vimeo turned up nothing, so I don't have a more durable link handy.
This is, uh... an interesting escalation.
The Wall Street Journal has been fake news since it was sold to Rupert Murdoch in 2007. Fox news - set up by Murdoch after Reagan made the Australian a US citizen - has been fake news from the start. Everything Murdoch touches turns to unreliable, blatently biased info-crud. This is 6 years old, but still worth reading. There are also several books documenting Murdoch's life-long policy of distorting news in support of his political agenda.
Only boring people are ever bored.
I watched a couple of his game play-through videos. He's fresh and funny. But I think he views himself as some kind of ultimate Hipster. Everything he says and does, by definition, is supposed to be viewed as "ironic". If you don't get his funny, then by definition you're not hip. Or so that is what he's telling us. SNL does a lot of this, and has a lot of fail too. But at least they have a few people to vet their attempts at comedy to ensure it doesn't cross the line. The reality is, PDP is just an ignorant photogenic nerd whose emotional maturity is frozen at 15 years old. He has no care or empathy for those he insults and cares nothing about anyone not in his nerdy fan base. And since he' probably running his own show, he has no one to blame but himself for goring other people's sacred cows.
People wouldn't use Google at work if it was full of spam and porn.
No, they would. Google Image Search is particularly bad, though at least it doesn't seem to quite have the same reliability for at least one bare breast within the first page--but what it considers, for example, a duck or a hamster continues to get rather interesting.
(As for the 'forced to continue paying him' issue--if the contracts say so, yes, or whatever the penalty named in the contract or determined by a judge is for them to get out of said contract. Being a large corporation should not mean that your contracts are only valid and enforceable when you want them to be, and by its very nature if you allow a company to do so 'because J Doe is an ebil person!!1!' then you've got it established that it is a thing they get to do and they can do it just as easily for, say, a generally innocuous vlog by a transwoman who is just documenting her transition because she brings up some of the trans issues that trans activists get weirdly pissy about. Never mind that they're kiiinda important if you're considering SRS...)
Sarah Silverman is in multiple Disney movies. If Disney were concerned about Hitler impersonations, Sarah would be out on her arse too. By all indications the reason PewDiePie got the flick is because the Wall St Journal backed Disney into a corner with bullshit.