[SloughFeg]

I stopped reading at "I'm not female, so I don't have to worry about getting thousands of rape threats every month". Inserting unsubstantiated claims for shock value into an argument just detracts from any other points he is trying to make.

[wpietri]

That hardly needs substantiation if you pay even modest attention to the experience of outspoken women on the Internet. Just off the top of my head:

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/internet/2012/06/dear-inte...

http://www.clutchmagonline.com/2013/03/adria-richards-receiv...

http://www.cosmopolitan.com/advice/work-money/lindy-west-bul...

[ehmish]

I disagree, It seems women get more rape threats than men, hence privacy would have a higher concern for them. As I've never had a rape threat directed at me, I'm far more relaxed about my privacy than I can imagine someone who has had a rape threat directed at them would be.

[kordless]

I read the damn thing three times and can't find a point to any of it. What I see is a bunch of rambling doom and gloom statements: "and then it all came tumbling down". What exactly has tumbled here? The fact they jacked with the YouTube comment system?

[ehmish]

XMPP Syndication, (And with that interoperability), an increase of invasiveness of their ads (for those without adblock), the death of Google Reader, there's plenty more if you read up.