Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Inside the 'disinformation' industry" video.

  1. Its amazing that here's Freddy pointing fingers about disinformation when plenty of his guests are specialists in spreading lies and disinformation. I basically unsubscribed and stopped watching Freddy's videos when he kept having on people like Michael Schellenberger and Konstantin Kisin who have BOTH become major spreaders of disinformation in recent years. What ever morals and ethics those guys had they threw away and its NOT that Freddy has them. We should always have an open mind to alternative views. My issue is when disinformation GOES UNCHALLENGED. And here's an example. In Schellenberger's famous TED talk titled "Why renewables can’t save the planet | Michael Shellenberger | TEDxDanubia" about 9 minutes in he points out the deaths in Holland of workers on a wind turbine. As an engineer who's worked in safety systems this is taken incredibly out of context and there is no need for it. That TEDx talk is full of great and informative information and I have used it a lot in pointing out things. The most important of which is that BY THEMSELVES renewables will not save the planet. What I hate is the implication by Schellenberger that the pursuit of renewables is NOT helping and that's a lie. The truth on that is that renewables like wind and solar will be a major part of saving the planet because they do less harm but they can't do it alone because you need other things to keep the energy grids stable. To use that example of workers dying on a wind turbine NOT only has NOTHING to do with the functionality of a wind turbine but avoids the actual issue with workplace safety, accidents and deaths. Its just a distraction to evoke an emotional response instead of sticking to the important aspects of the topic. But this is the sort of thing people do when pushing a narrative they'll present fact after fact and then switch to a fact out of context or just outright lies hoping nobody notices the switch. So when Freddy bemoans how the government is handling misinformation, lets put it in context and that context is Freddy spreads or helps spread misinformation.
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