Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Why Young Women Are More Woke" video.

  1. There's also a deep-down sense that there would be enough resources for every need, if only men would distribute those resources more fairly. So when a greasy politician comes along and promises to care for all the poor, women (and a lot of men) just naturally think that the solution to poverty is simple, just a matter of a small bit of tax and then perfectly fair redistribution by saintly, ethical, and infinitely more sensible bureaucrats than all the beastly men they know.
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  2.  @DundG  Some of the most strident anti-woke do seem to come at it from a regressive perspective. I'm anti-woke, because I'm a classical liberal, and I want everyone treated the same, regardless of immutable characteristics over which they have no control. I'm anti-woke because I know socialism on a large scale doesn't work, because you put all the power to call all the shots in the hands of a very small number of people. Spread out the power. Spread out the risk.
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  3. Social media accelerates the rate at which ideas spread. Both good and bad ideas. But it's not like bad ideas were invented in 2013. I know what you're saying about Tik-Tok, but all the stupid fads you see going around are really not embraced by as many people as it seems. Also, for every bad idea that gets traction, there's a good idea that can also spread, virally. The longer Tik-Tok and other social media are around, the more positive I think it will be. Long-term users figure out what helps them and what doesn't help them, and things kind of naturally lean that way, whichever way it is, over time. Just because we can all see the cultish behavior rising and falling doesn't mean that people weren't trapped in cults of all kinds over the years before social media. It was just not as easy for the rest of us to see, because virtually everything we saw was curated by a handful of rich people. As long as we stay one step ahead of the censors, and I don't see how we cannot, short of breaking the Internet. And if our would-be controllers break the Internet, they're basically breaking their own institutional means of control, because it will signal a total failure by the institutions so bent on controlling us! LOL! In any case, if the establishment breaks the Internet because we, the people, get too uppity, Tik-Tok will be the least of our problems.
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  4. Yes. I believe that all parents should know about hosts.deny and hosts.allow concept. For your kids, you should basically deny all domain names. Then, allow a list of domains that you know are OK for them, because you checked them out, either with your child or not, but probably better to do with your child. Add to the hosts.allow file as your children ask and you can check. You can of course allow a lot of DNS's your child never heard of, because you think they're broadening in the right way(s). They probably won't like it, but hey, I didn't like having to be home by dark when I was a kid, and it's the same kind of reasonable restriction to place on a child. But for ADULTS, I think these social media platforms should not be making censorship decisions, the same way the telephone company isn't responsible for what you say on the phone. I think lies and misinformation get exposed and shot down a LOT quicker in an open and unrestricted (by 3rd parties) forum. "Hate speech" is a HUGE pet peeve of mine. Big censorship engine there, that's ripe for the taking and has already been used, extensively. No such thing as a hate crime. But there are crimes already on the books, where your open hatred becomes a factor in the penalty phase (after being found guilty), and rightly so, because motives do make a difference.
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