Comments by "Gareth Hart" (@tgheretford) on "Styxhexenhammer666" channel.

  1. The meltdown and the salt mining has been glorious. I hope Musk's shareholding will bring positive change to Twitter.
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  2. You'll see a baby boom when Taylor Swift gets pregnant.
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  3. The latest line from the "childless cat ladies" - "we wouldn't be if misogynistic men 'manned up' and committed to us". Translated as "attractive, high status men won't commit to us and therefore they're sexist, deny me the family life I am entitled to and therefore keeping us childless".
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  4. Amazing considering past precedents of when Government sets precedence and gives themselves more powers how people are shilling for the Government on the basis that "this time, it'll be different - honest!"
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  5. And here is me thinking that the mask mandates are getting a bit extreme...
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  6. Other commentators seem more keen to dismiss the concerns and criticism of others by smearing them as unhinged, conspiratorial or hyperbolic in their belief that the Government can be completely trusted and won't abuse or overreach this time round, they promise.
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  7. What is frustrating is that parents want to outsource their parenting to the Government. Hence these new online safety laws which won't just apply to kids.
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  8. It's rather telling that Lira's critics are not talking about the rationale behind Ukraine arresting him or what he was publishing regarding Ukraine while in an active war zone but of his past as a key figure of the "manosphere". Mass self-reporting on social media.
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  9. Yes. I should not be punished for parents who wanted to outsource their parenting to the Government.
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  10. The future of YouTube as I think will happen in the long term: - Unlimited storage for accounts we find profitable, eligible for monetisation via ad funding or YouTube Premium and agreeable (mainstream media news channels, comedians and pop videos); - Closure of accounts for those we don't agree with under the forthcoming ToS as "economically unviable" (alternative media, right wing/conservative content); - Limited storage linked to your Google Drive account for everyone else, ineligible for monetisation and uploaded videos set to private and only shareable via a link, limited to prevent videos going viral or abused (ie. embedding videos to a third party website). That way, Google can still claim YouTube allows anyone to upload videos while limiting monetisation for the content it wants.
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  11. The UK is proposing to ban adult content and nudity online to everyone. A consultation on that just ended. We wait and see if it will become law. Despite the Conservatives looking to be booted out, Labour will happily take up the baton.
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  12. It won't stop with kids, it will soon apply to adults. The UK is considering banning technology for children and even suggestions of a national Intranet "to protect the kids from hate speech" with the Internet being restricted to Government and companies for trade and as a middle man for the public. They also want to implement age/ID verification with both Government Photo ID and live, ongoing facial recognition as their preferred option for anything not "safe for kids" next year.
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  13. And the UK. Worse still, they want to go further. If activists for "online safety" get their way, the UK could ban technology for under 16's and put in a national Intranet with Internet access restricted to the Government and companies for trade and as a middle man for the public.
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  14. They said the same thing about smoking. Now smoking is starting to be banned for adults too.
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  15. The UK also has an inflation problem, could easily blitz the target the Bank of England has. Guess what's happening to wages? Going up? No. Going DOWN. Ask any UK Pret a Manger staff member who've just been told to accept a wage cut or lose their job. If you're lucky, you'll get a real terms cut in pay. As for companies and how they deal with lower spending power, they just focus their attention to those who can still afford the increased price service or goods and shed everyone else. A UK mobile phone network shed a load of subscribers back during the financial crisis who didn't make enough money to great success and now every company does it.
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  16. They came for Computing Forever and Parler. From rhetoric I have seen ranging from bedroom activists all the way up to people in power, they're not stopping there. They are coming for everything. What they are doing is going through each platform they wish to cancel, investigation who provides service and then giving them an ultimatium - comply and revoke service or be cancelled yourself. Then they go up the chain. After one site is done, they go to another. For example, Gab has anything (Cloudflare for DDOS protection I know they have) service which is from a third party, even the prospect of upgrading servers because they ain't free and they ain't manufacturing them themselves, then they are at risk.
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  17. There are parents who want the Internet banned outright "to protect the children" and replaced with a national Intranet. With content curated and regulated by the state.
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  18. "That's a nice business you have. It would be a shame if people and other businesses were to find out you are bigots - including VISA, Mastercard, American Express, PayPal, Stripe..."
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  19. The commentators who say that this will just be for TikTok and won't be abused, allow for overreach, allow for a slippery slope precedence or bring in a Trojan Horse by hand-waving away any concern or critique as unhinged, conspiratorial or hyperbolic should ask Biden to sell them the Brooklyn Bridge.
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  20. The Labour Party in the UK tried to bring in an amendment to ban VPN's under the Online Safety Bill. They failed but now have a huge majority in Parliament and will likely try again. Don't assume VPN's are safe.
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  21. Sue every single defamer for every single penny they've got.
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  22. I think Governments with an authoritarian, nanny state streak to them, have looked into how the Australian state of Victoria has implemented its lockdown in response to a second wave and seem to be both awestruck and envious of their enforcement of it.
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  23. They already do filter content for kids. It's called YouTube Kids.
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  24.  @elpatron7916  It's funny how people who furiously oppose wealth transfer by the state suddenly support it when it comes to taking money away from single, childless people and giving it to families.
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  25. Twitter also suspended Politics For All today for having thoughts of their own which were not aligned to the mainstream media.
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  26. If you watch all the videos, articles and evidence of the current state of dating and long term single women, you've got a better chance of Kamala Harris defecting to the Republican Party than that ever happening.
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  27. It will more likely be a national Intranet and a ban on technology for under 16's. The UK is seriously considering these options "to protect the children" but it will apply to everyone.
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  28. How did people respond to anyone who warned that this would spread from Patreon by other companies? Was the response by the deniers that it was a "conspiracy theory" and would never happen so "chill", was it?
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