Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Why did YouTube censor discussion of Ivermectin? | Bret Weinstein and Lex Fridman" video.

  1. If only people like Bret Weinstein didn't empower the giant, sprawling government in the first place. This octopus that reaches into every nook and cranny of the economy and society is the dragon liberals and progressives built. And now, a few - only a few - of the more self-reflective ones are saying "Muh liberty!" You gave up on that liberty thing when you voted for the guy who promised free stuff.
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  2. The only way that Big Tech would participate in the censorship of legitimate information "unknowingly" is if they're extremely stupid. I don't think they're stupid. I think they're corrupt. I think they know EXACTLY what they're doing.
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  3. The bad ideas grab a small percentage of people, even "viral videos" that reach millions. We're a planet of BILLIONS. And the bad ideas very quickly reveal their flaws by catastrophic failure when implemented, and unless it's the federal government implementing that bad idea EVERYWHERE AT THE SAME TIME, that failure will only be visited on the relative few who bought into the lie, and those who didn't (and those who did and yet survived) will learn by that lesson. There is NO meme or viral video that has the reach of the federal government. And even if one DOES, one day, it will still not have the authority to impose itself by force on EVERYone, like the federal government has the exclusive monopoly on doing. Yes, bad ideas get out there. But bad ideas ALSO come down from the supposed authorities. ALL THE TIME. If you censor ANYbody, you likely censor the people - like Bret and Heather - who correctly decry the bad ideas and rip them apart, point by point. The next time you think the government is all-wise, ask yourself who caused the Dust Bowl or Chernobyl. The only argument for continued censorship is that decades of behind-the-curtain censorship have eroded the average person's ability to see through bullshit. You look at the world a whole lot more skeptically/critically, when you don't live under the illusion that people smarter and more wise than you are making sure all you get is the complete, objective truth. In the USA, the people have been getting nothing BUT curated facts and cherry-picked evidence from a handful of organizations that all pull in the same direction and never (or rarely) challenge what government insiders want.
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