Stephen Fry talking about comments

July 8, 2010 5:33 PM

Is there a clip on youtube where Stephen Fry talks about 'malevolent' comments on blogs, twitter or youtube?

There is this story in the guardian of Stephen Fry wanting to quit twitter because of the malevolent comment culture. Is there a clip where he elaborates his thoughts about this? http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/nov/20/stephen-fry-twitter

posted by ts;dr to Computers & Internet (5 answers total)

He mentions something of the sort towards the end of the video linked in in this post, though that bit doesn't seem to be in the transcript.

Don't know if the video is also on YouTube.
posted by motty at 5:40 PM on July 8, 2010

Response by poster: I saw this, but he just mentions this just very briefly there.
Wasn't there a clip where he talks more about this subject than this one?
posted by ts;dr at 5:45 PM on July 8, 2010

Are you talking about this one?
posted by phunniemee at 6:14 PM on July 8, 2010

Best answer: He talked a bit about this during his extended interview with Craig Ferguson this past February (posted previously, though those links are broken). You can watch part of it at the end of this clip (@8:15) and the rest of it in this one.
posted by Rhaomi at 6:15 PM on July 8, 2010 [1 favorite]

Best answer: Here Stephen talks about social media in general, but he doesn't specifically mention malevolence.
posted by crunchland at 6:24 PM on July 8, 2010 [1 favorite]