When I reached the part about watching a lot of Louis Rossmann videos it made more sense. I have to be careful with my words because there are a lot of Louis Rossmann fans on HN. Rossmann is a very charismatic influencer who speaks with a confident and soothing tone and positions himself as someone just telling the facts for the benefits of his viewers. I've written before about how he tends to jump to conclusions, launch videos based on rumors, ignore facts that contradict juicy controversies, and stir the pot while positioning himself as the only rational source for a subject.

Note that I'm not saying Louis Rossmann is always wrong, nor that I disagree with him on everything, nor that I dislike the good things he does, nor any of the other numerous straw-man arguments that people come up with when you bring up issues with his influencer activity. However, he's the type of influencer who seems to lure in people who let their guard down and stop thinking critically for themselves, which opens the door to articles like this one where the conclusion isn't entirely rational but it feels rational after watching Louis Rossmann talk about it for hours and hours.

Conflating America, the country, with American companies, ignoring all of the non-American companies doing the same practices, and then bringing up a non-American company as the lone supporting example is all consistent with the dynamic I'm describing. The conclusion is assumed to be correct, because it's correct in the world of Louis Rossmann, but putting it to words outside of the YouTube influencer bubble falls apart on any critical thinking.

> I've written before about how he tends to jump to conclusions, launch videos based on rumors, ignore facts that contradict juicy controversies, and stir the pot while positioning himself as the only rational source for a subject.

Let's analyze that. You've written 2 comments[1] that mention him, making these same disparaging claims with no evidence whilst taking every opportunity to insult those of us who have a positive view of him.

1. You accused him of spreading misinformation on the topic of Mozilla changing their ToS to include unambiguous language that assigned them a license to any information we upload or enter through Firefox. Mozilla later responded with weasel language amounting to "nuh uh, that's not what it means" until they eventually changed those terms. All of this is documented on Rossmann's wiki. [2] Being gullible enough to believe every illogical explanation that a corporate PR department provides is not a virtue of a free thinker you're making it out to be.

2. You accused him of spreading misinformation on the topic of Brother adding consumer-hostile features, despite there being many independent sources predating his video complaining about the same issue across Reddit, HN, Github, and multiple independent forums. Again, this is documented on his wiki. [3]

3. And this is the most damning — You accused him of engaging in bad faith and "moving the goalposts" in relation to the self-service repair program. His first impression [4] was that the program is a step in the right direction, but not nearly enough. That's not moving the goalposts, that's highlighting the fact that the goalposts have not been met.

Your dishonest portrayal paints him as someone who's incapable of praise and only looks for negativity, when in fact he's gives credit where credit is due. He praised Apple when they first introduced the Independent Repair Provider Program [5], before that program ultimately turned out to be a sham.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[2] https://consumerrights.wiki/Mozilla_introduces_TOS_to_Firefo...

[3] https://consumerrights.wiki/Brother_printers_causing_issues_...

[4] https://youtu.be/agG108sxkyo?t=803

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tRq5niOM7Q

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