I don't think at all about 'the people behind YouTube.' They are just there, and there's nothing anybody can do about it. People will continue to watch YouTube.
It gave him Long Stupid.
I look for it sometimes. It's actually quite entertaining in a 'dirty' kind of way. A bit like looking up old episodes of the Benny Hill show.
And you, you can just foam at the mouth as good, honest, working class folk say what they fuck they want.
He seems to forget that anybody who is actually working class realises that the working class comprises people who are good and honest, the opposite of that and (probably a majority, including me) somewhere in between. And, as with people from the middle class, relatively few go about 'saying what the fuck they want,' as it isn't really possible in any and every situation.
I don't need to. Whether you like it or not, people will wind up using censorship resistant protocols on the internet that can't be shut down.
tbf and honest, right and left doesn't mean much anymore, especially when there has been crossover on a bunch of issues. The left used to be against the European Project and for free speech.
The IPFS isn't crypto and blockchains don't solve everything, but they solve a lot.
Oh the far right can exist and spout as much shite as I could ever find the far left spout.
I discovered Lasch, an ex-Marxist, in the early-mid 1990s when any thoughtful leftie should have been at least a bit introspective. I found his political conclusions pretty hopeless, but his explanations as to how we got to where we were convincing. Due to the left's seeming incapability of self-criticism, the situation has only worsened. It's a long time since I've read anything of his, but I do remember that he had a grasp of reality (at least in the US-which has a record of exporting its problems) and the way that top-down left-liberalism had a tendency to alienate the very people it was supposed to benefit.
I agree about Europe and free speech, but the idea that the left-right divide, while it doesn't address the real, possibly insoluble problems everybody on the planet faces, is now redundant only ever seems to benefit the right. And in doing so benefits the very people who are driving those very same problems.
We replaced her with a bot the last five times you visited and you didn't even notice
How? People who are into this stuff still have to exist on the same planet as everybody else, don't they? And its problems aren't going away no matter what views an individual subscribes to.
Think you place way too much faith in the crypto/blockchain woo
Except solving how to make money
I'm actually starting to think free speech is overrated, looking at where it's brought us. I don't really understand how 'citizens being able to express without legal sanction political views that oppose the status quo' (which is how I understand the idea of free speech) has degenerated into 'I get to say whatever I want at any time no matter how untrue it is or how harmful the effects of my words might be for other people'. Which is less free speech and more stroppy teen speech. We're like an entire society of stroppy teens who can't abide being told 'no' and who revel in the selfishness of 'I can say and do whatever I want and you can't stop me nyah!' It's laughable, or it would be if it weren't to fucking toxic
^^^ We don't have even that.
What are you on about?
Nope. I laugh and watch as over and over again, people are being ripped off by a financial system and the "solution" is always to "trust that other cunt instead" when the real solution doesn't involve trusting anyone in the first place.
