How Not To Build A PC, And How Not To Respond To Those Criticizing You For It

About four months ago, The Verge posted a video on its YouTube channel
explaining the basics of building your own PC. Unfortunately, the
video was full of mistakes, some small, some potentially more
troublesome. Naturally this was pointed out in the comments. Also
several other more techie-oriented channels responded with their own
critique videos, some quite scathing. Rather than admit its mistake, the
company decided to simply block comments for that video, and eventually
take it down altogether. (Though not before it had accumulated a few
thousand downvotes.)

Now, within the last week or so, it has suddenly decided to go after
those critique videos, and force them to be taken down on the basis of
copyright infringement, because they contain extracts from the original
item. Extracts which, under US fair use law, it was perfectly legal
for them to include.

Naturally, these heavy-handed attempts at censorship provoked a great
deal of anger and protest, and the company has had to relent. If it
was trying to downplay any lingering evidence of its previous
embarrassment, this was absolutely not the way to do it. The phrase
“Streisand Effect” immediately comes to mind, where an attempt by the
eponymous celebrity to suppress pictures of the outside of her home,
taken from public property, only caused them to be spread more widely.

<https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+verge+pc+build+takedown>

Origin of the Streisand Effect:
<https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20030624/1231228.shtml>
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