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I was at Sundance and the World Documentary categories for which Simon Klose's film was not selected, included documentaries on many important cultural, social and political issues.

I would suggest to him that selected films such as "The Square" about the Arab Spring and "Pussy Riot - A Punk Prayer" are much more relevant and genuine to the discussion of the issues of censorship and freedom of speech, than his film about a bunch of people who cynically mis-appropriate the issues in an attempt to create cover for their criminal activities. It's perfectly reasonable for Sundance to judge Simon Klose's film as less important in comparison - and for him to cry censorship is preposterous. He's either being cynical or has an over-glorified sense of his own self importance.

Freedom of speech gives Sundance the editorial freedom to both select and not select whatever it wants. For him to regard non-selection by Sundance as a form of censorship - goes against the principles that he falsely purports to defend.

When it comes to the Youtube "views", these figures are nothing exceptional. Go on Youtube and you will find many thousands of uploads with seven figure stats achieved without the publicity campaign mounted for this doc. The internet and youtube invariably exaggerates the audience. For most one takes 1% or less to gauge the real audience potential.