Did YouTuber Pewdiepie go too far?

For those of you who are avid YouTube viewers, you will most likely be familiar with the number one most subscribed channel on YouTube “Pewdiepie”.

Pewdiepie (or Felix) is known for making commentary videos on video games while screaming at the camera. He has also created some vlog style comedy videos. Felix has gotten himself involved in quite the controversy recently. He has lost a contract with Disney and has been dropped from his webseries on YouTube Red. As Google and Disney feel he went too far with some anti-semitic commentary.

On Monday, he live-streamed a video via Fiverr in which he convinced and paid two men to hold up a sign reading “Death to all Jews”. These men who are from India claim that they did not know what they were saying as English is not their first language. This was expressed in an apology video from the two Indian men.

There has also been a stream of Hitler imagery used in Felix’s videos. He claims it is his way to show how crazy the modern world has become and these are all forms of satire.

But has he gone to far? Sure he may be entitled to freedom of speech. But doesn’t freedom of speech still come with consequences? Is it not possible to support freedom of speech while not endorsing his message or similar messages to it?

Source: Huffington Post