[exodust]

> What does he want us to do?

Are you waiting to be told what to do? The article is asking whether we're approaching Orwellian times. If police turn up at your work because of a satirical tweet you wrote last night, maybe that's something to write about and be concerned about.

> Not criticize

I believe his problem is when criticism bares teeth and is delivered as legal action, or some kind of penalty or strike action, or drummed up hit pieces etc.

[system7rocks]

If the police showed up because of a satirical tweet, I would laugh. As should he. Come on. Have the police showed up to Richard Dawkins' home? No.

He didn't describe any legal action. Youtube is a private company. Youtube is owned by a trash company. I don't get it.

[exodust]

He mentions police showing up at someone's work regarding a tweet reported as hate-speech. Not really a laughing matter. It's a waste of police resources for starters.

Dawkins is not compelling reading on this subject. But I did find it funny the connection he makes between 1984's "2+2=5" and "her penis"... I chuckled at that!

I read your other comments here. You are pushing for Dawkins to sit down and chat with more trans people and discuss all these things, rather than throw stones from a place that looks a bit like intolerance or out of touch. Nothing wrong with that idea. Bring on the debate! The difference is that instead of his usual atheism subject matter, where God literally can't join the debate, it's now possible for the subject of his complaints to step up and answer his questions and concerns. I agree I think it should happen.

[HDThoreaun]

so you didnt even read the piece...