After GrodsCorp (along with Jeremy, Bruce and AV) linked to a horrid YouTube video of Family First candidate Jemma Tribe the other day, director Josh Reid’s YouTube channel’s hits went up 1000% as viewers took part in the democratic process by engaging with Jemma’s stated policies and values through the comments feature. A couple of hours ago when I checked there were about ten comments, most of which were negative about Family First and Jemma Tribe’s policies. Upon checking just now there were only two comments — both of which were positive — plus embedding and rating had been disabled.

Never accuse Family First of being unable to deal with criticism.

UPDATE (25/10): After reading this post and being confronted with his free speech-hating ways, Josh Reid has deleted the two fawning comments on the video from Family First staffers.