The CBS-owned tech outlet has a beef with how YouTube gamers and influencers are "riling up the crowd" with their rants and negativity toward game publishers.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/CNet-whines-about-angry-YouTube-commenters-proceeds-to-disable-its-own-comments-system-about-said-whining.423659.0.html
Journalism at its finest. They proved themselves to be hypocrites and dumb in front of everyone.
I agree with CNET. They approached it all wrong but have a valid point: enabling toxic negativity and the vile rhetoric that gamers usually spew does not create a better, more intelligent or constructive community. The more meme-ified and sadistic viewpoint you push onto topics as neutral as tech, the more you'll attract the frenzied, fooaming-at-the-mouth rabid dogs that are YouTube's trolling underbelly. You don't need those kinds of people in a tech community, or anywhere else for that matter.