Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Sam Harris Drops Patreon - Other Creators Follow" video.

  1. I'll no longer use Patreon or PayPal to support bloggers. You BETTER find an alternate means of transferring viewer support to your bank account that is untainted. Members of the Intellectual Dark Web are mulling the idea of creating their OWN such service. I don't think there should be any laws against most of the bullshit from Google. We just need an alternate business model that doesn't involve data mining. I'll be devoting some of this winter to finding alternatives. I'm about creeped-out by seeing my purchases pop up in advertisements on 3rd-party sites. The sites that USE that data are going to lose my views and support. Time to curb my media consumption and be a more discriminating consumer. EVERYbody on YouTube, no matter how "liberal" they are, is participating in Corporatocracy. You guys are so worried about losing your meal ticket that you Bow to the Machine.
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  2. Conservatives DGAF about dumb-ass platforms injecting their politics. We don't like it, but it's their right to be politically motivated jerks. And it's my right (and Sam Harris's right) to pull the plug and no longer patronize these bad-actor platforms. True conservatives see this as opening the door to competing platforms. My guess is that Sargon, as a leftist, wouldn't be against government regulation, if the regulations help Sargon. He's totally OK with government interfering in anything and everything, like most progressives, so long as the interference serves their short-term interests. The thing that I, as a classical liberal, fear, is that the outrage against abusive, politically-motivated censorship by so-called "neutral platforms" will create a groundswell of support for government sticking its nose in and sanitizing the Internet the same way government sanitized the major news networks, almost a century ago. If government does NOTHING, Free Speech will prevail. I wouldn't be at ALL surprised if the worst, most dominant platforms, are deliberately PROVOKING outrage, just so they can get the government to step in, because you KNOW those big outfits will control the regulations and the regulators, and competing platforms will not have any kind of chance to really compete. I hope that the NATURE of the Internet is such that no matter how hard they squeeze, we still control things at the grassroots level, and apparent domination, today, can become bankruptcy, tomorrow, IF YOU LEFTIES WILL LET THE MARKETPLACE DO ITS THING. And again, Sargon of Akkad is clearly left-of-center in his understanding of the proper role and scope of central government. Like most of that persuasion, scratch him and you see he bleeds an elitist attitude to rival any Progressive/Libtard.
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