American YouTuber Johnny Somali attacked again in Seoul (youtube.com)
Lifestreamers. Will YouTubers and Tiktokers become the most hated profession?
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The risk with stories like Johnny Somali is that he mixes things like saying things, criticizing things, against countries and people and anything else, without any restraint of respect, and also does things like abuse people's peace in public, cause outrage through his acts. Which of these should be charged and which allowed? Because in the passion of an outrage against someone like him, all things can get swept up in ‘you can’t do that in our country' and have a bunch of people there on alert to take violent action against people. However, we value people who can offer irreverent criticism, who aren't hampered by respect and can see and speak more clearly on often-reverenced topics more than can the commons. We have constitutional rights to protect this because it's of great value. So if Johnny Somali was just blogging his ideas in words, which he has done, this part should be protected, but I think it will get swept up in condemnation and excitment to oppose any misbehavior or lack of respect by foreigners of a country or people.
Naturally, the best thing is one that is mostly ruled out by modern governments, which is quick, limited violent reactions by citizens. Often this is the only effective response to public misbehavior. But it hasn't been recognized, and citizens are refrained from maintaining their society by fear of punishment of themselves for controlling their society.