Michael Williams

US Slavery Abolitionist, Anti-Government, civil rights activist.

[Michael Williams @monthope]

American Sign Language is 3rd for language spoken at home in the United States. The fact that so many failed to include the interpreter in the video illustrates very self-centered people and speaks ill of the organizations on the whole. Thank you, MPRnews!

[Michael Williams @monthope]

@MPRnews THANK YOU for keeping the ASL interpreter on the screen for the DOJ press conference. @globalnews also included the deaf community in their coverage. I called out the heartless @APNews, @SkyNews, and @USATODAY for their pitiful lack of professionalism.

[Michael Williams @monthope]

@globalnews @APNews @USATODAY You failed on this, too! You really are quite the group of uninformed, poorly trained news organizations. How do you plead regarding your obvious slight and dismissal of the deaf community?

[Michael Williams @monthope]

@globalnews Looked around at various news outlets covering the DOJ findings of Minneapolis PD/George Floyd. 3 zoomed in only in the speaker. YOUR camera person included the ASL interpreter! Thank you, Global News for including EVERYONE! Shame on the others. Shame on @APNews!

[Michael Williams @monthope]

@globalnews @APNews @SkyNews you are guilty of this, too! Did you also fail to educate your intern? Did you thing the ASL interpreter was provided only for the people in the room and had nothing to do with the citizens who are deaf/HH? Or do you and @APNews just not care?

[Michael Williams @monthope]

@globalnews @APNews @APNews How do you answer for this horrible, short-sighted choice of your crappy employee? Was that person not trained that the news is for everyone? Were you trying to shut out the deaf/hearing impaired? What is the answer you have for cutting them out? It didn't save you money.

[Michael Williams @monthope]

@TeamYouTube Maybe it's the programming code: how often a viewer is reported. Research indicates that your programming is self-policing, meaning that enough false reports by other users activates an automatic blocking of future comments without any offending reason. It allows gang bullying!

[Michael Williams @monthope]

@TeamYouTube I've tried to reach out tothrough the app and here to no avail. Cyber-bullying is rampant on YT and nobody has done anything but paste responses which don't even relate. They are using your tools to do it. Why would not want to investigate and end hate? Why...

[Michael Williams @monthope]

Cyber-bullying I've seen has included baseless accusations of crimes, spreading of rumors, and threats. The bullying continues. YT seems to not care. Are they hoping for more instances of self-harm due to the hate their site allows...as if it's a draw for morehaters?

[Michael Williams @monthope]

...are you not actively trying to stop the damage happening from someone using your platform for hate? https://t.co/Yp77DkZJpE

[Michael Williams @monthope]

@TeamYouTube That did not answer me. The reporting system you have created has been designed so an individual can be targeted by a gang and their false reports can cripple the accounts of others they wish to silence. Every. Single. Day! Why have the ability for poor actors to harass others?

[Michael Williams @monthope]

@TeamYouTube I'm harassed & bullied every day on YT. I don't break the TOS yet users gang up to deactivate my ability to comment. Your program allows this daily undeserved bullying. I have sent many messages and yet your programming still allows and encourages this hate!

[Michael Williams @monthope]

@TeamYouTube I have gotten no email. I can't comment now. Every comment removed after 20 seconds. Every channel. If many fake report me it also temporarily blocks me from commenting, right? I believe I am being ganged up on this way every single day! Or there is a glitch in your system!

[Michael Williams @monthope]

@TeamYouTube Second tweet after many times reporting this the formal way. The first tweet you didn't read and gave me a link that didn't relate. Your system is being exploited and you don't seem to want to learn what the problem is and fix it. Why are you fine with bullies harming your site?

[Michael Williams @monthope]

@TeamYouTube I'm attacked every day by other USERS and even though I don't violate the terms of service users gang up on me and I then can't comment or reply in all YT. This is every day! You have no reporting process for this. It's your system allowing gangs to sabotage others.

[Michael Williams @monthope]

@TeamYouTube How can you allow bullies to use your system to cripple other users ability to freely and equally interact on your site? Why do you only send a link to report channels when this is from users whom I can't identify? Why do you not read these tweets?

[Michael Williams @monthope]

@TeamYouTube This is not an issue with any channel. This is likely an abuse of your "reporting" process which allows users to be targeted by other users out of vengeance. This is gang-style hate your program allows and encourages. How about you actually speak with me and learn what's up?

[Michael Williams @monthope]

@TeamYouTube I have reported this problem for quite some time. You team must still be sleeping. This tweet was AFTER repeated attempts to report it through the app. Repeated attempts that were ignored....like you did with this complaint and giving only a copy/paste answer.

[Michael Williams @monthope]

@TeamYouTube This is not a channel problem. I am being banned from leaving comments on every channel across all of YT. Why? The link you sent did not have any option to address what is happening. You didn't even read my tweets...only gave a spam reply. Wtf?