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

  1. Not defending their pay, but I do know of a fast food manager for a well know chain in the UK and they don't just manage one restaurant - they manage a number of them.
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  2. The Home Secretary has made demands of Meta to abandon encryption and privacy or face consequences, including jail time, fines and banning from the UK if they don't comply. This is not one MP any more, I will wager that they're all in support of this.
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  3. I warned this would happen. We saw it with cable and satellite television and it's now happening to free platforms online - they all eventually embrace the paywall by making the free offering unpalatable and then dump the free offering because of low use and a preference for subscription services.
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  4. Dating - where equality goes to die.
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  5. The people complaining about this video are neo-puritans. They need to own it.
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  6. There's more to come. The overturning of contraception, homosexuality and same-sex marriage is also coming from what I am reading and pro-life conservative activists have stated on record that they will not rest until all of these are banned in all fifty states. This is a case of not the beginning of the end but the end of the beginning. The safe, legal and rare compromise is over.
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  7. Never trust any bill that tells you that it's to "protect the safety of children". And if you're in the UK, wait until March, every website accessible in the UK will have to implement real life facial recognition via their Government photo ID to verify their age on anything not "safe for kids". As the regulator overseeing this has stated that photo ID (as proposed in KOSA) is not reliable enough for verification. What is about to go live in the UK is coming to the United States - it's only when, not if.
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  8. It's already law in Britain and already the argument is that it's nowhere near enough. The UK is now heading toward restrictions on technology and a national Intranet to "protect the children". They're also trying to push the narrative that technology is a threat to politicians safety.
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  9. Corporations have been wanting to destroy the Internet Archive because they don't want a historical record of the Internet or the ability for people to access all media, knowledge and information outside of their control. If this hack has exposed what people have been downloading and uploading, corporations will be confident that they can get this data legally through the courts to sue everyone for big paydays.
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  10. If anyone (in Scotland) does believe the company is running a scam, don't give grief to content creators, contact Trading Standards Scotland who could investigate and potentially shut it down. I noticed another company doing the same thing has got into trouble legally in Scotland after they were informed that the titles have no legal standing unless the landowner lives in Scotland permanently and is "well-deserving". Technically, the title users could potentially be committing fraud themselves if they use their illegal title to acquire goods or services by deception.
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  11. Voter ID is coming, but only the expensive forms of ID will be accepted, disenfranchising the poor. Any amendment to allow low cost or free ID will fail.
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  12. Employers would prefer to pay $0 an hour and automate everything while continuing to hike prices. The horse has bolted, nothing will bring prices down ever again and now people could face being unemployable.
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  13. As we enter the latter stages of enshittification where YouTube believes that all the money is not enough money, viewers are being psychologically nudged toward the Premium paywall being the only option and creators are getting financially stuffed.
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  14.  @Hacker-PTW  Deborah Cohen, BBC Newsnight's medical correspondent has the evidence.
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  15.  @JosiahJS976  That legitimises mob justice, doxing and cancel culture against anyone who either is critical of masks or exercises their bodily autonomy and free will?
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  16. That would be the best news Zuckerberg has heard in a decade.
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  17. Press P to piss on its grave.
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  18. They want to push everyone to subscribe to Premium without formally announcing they're paywalling the site because that would cause mass uproar. The specific action against Firefox could be seen as an anti-trust issue - one the European Commission is unlikely to take kindly to.
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  19. Virtua Simp.
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  20.  @menow.  Profile had a Venmo link.
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  21. Or in the UK, get profiled and put under surveillance by the intelligence agencies.
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  22. This is the way more and more channels are going towards, having people pay direct subscriptions to them. A whole load of YouTuber's in the education, documentary and non-fiction realm did this and created Nebula. YouTube is either going to embrace this model alongside Premium or have more creators quit because it's financially unsustainable to run on ads, sponsorships and voluntary donation means. It's good to see backlash to this but I fear more content creators will just go forward with this model because they'd consider it more viable to have 1% pay than let the rest watch for free.
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  23. I've just seen a prominent campaigner against child predators has formally reported Twitch to Ofcom, the UK media regulator which has powers under the new Online Safety Act, to fine or block websites. 🍿
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  24. If I recall correctly, the UK has some of the strictest copyright laws in the world.
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  25. Things are getting far worse recently for those who watch via a smart TV or streaming device. The advertisements are getting longer, multiple and unskippable. Getting to the point where YouTube are poking people to purchase Premium by making the service borderline unusuable without paying the subscription fee. Up to five minute adverts every few minutes and many of them may not even benefit the content creator you're watching (or trying to).
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  26. A warning to Canadians and other countries which are going down this road, the UK has implemented a law and already we're being told it's nowhere near enough. Now we could see a national Intranet and restrictions on technology to "protect the children".
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  27. The ironic thing is, unless you are self-employed, the company you work for has a social media policy which policies what you can and can not say outside of work. Violate that policy and you will find yourself on the wrong end of a firing. Even on a personal account, she has probably violated Nintendo's social media policy.
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  28. That was the case decades ago, it is not the case now. Men waiting until their 30s and then expecting to be swamped with attention from women are going to be bitterly disappointed.
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  29. I wish Rumble would support casting to TV like its other main competitor does. We may need to jump ship from YouTube sooner than you think unless you're happy to pay for Premium.
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  30. There's a Reddit post going around at the moment where a man, who commentators are assuming is attractive, is going to be reported to HR by a colleague for NOT paying attention to the women in the office. Pay attention as an unattractive man and you get in trouble. Don't pay attention as an attractive man and you get in trouble.
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  31. $1 a hour wage = you're fired. Automation is still cheaper. Unless you want to pay to work, it won't stop automation. And the prices won't decrease either, they only go one way, regardless if you cut wages or implement automation.
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  32. PayPal has just banned a number of free speech unions and organisations critical of the UK's Government implementation of lockdown. Worse still, there is the potential that PayPal could put CIFAS markers on everyone who is involved or donated to said organisations that could result in existing bank accounts being closed and making it impossible for people to open a new bank account for six years. The weaponising of finances to censor.
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  33. He's using the same tactic to shame men that feminists use. And has any of their shaming tactics ever changed the minds of anyone it was aimed at?
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  34. When online dating is now the only game in town (it was dominant according to 2019 data) and based predominately on looks, social skills will do nothing to help them in dating. And studies have shown that physical attractiveness, what dating apps focus predominately on, are the biggest factor on mate selection. And that's based predominately on genes and height, which you can't get from lifting at the gym. As for the idea that money and status in your 30s are the golden ticket to being swamped with women, now young, childless women outearn their male counterparts due to affirmative action, they don't need a man. Their job and the state will take the place of a father figure. Or they'll adopt a pet. Or have a same-sex relationship. What people say (in terms of what they find attractive) and their actions are two different things. Focus on the latter.
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  35. The game is rigged to ensure you as a man, can not win.
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  36. The payment processors and advertisers have found out what's been happening on the platform and how teenagers and children are viewing it. Amazon won't have a choice, not just reverse the changes this week but also get rid of the other controversial stuff or the likes of MasterCard, VISA and American Express remove their services.
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  37. Men are paying for female attention - to have a woman notice their existence which is either lacking in their life as a single person or lacking in their relationship. You need to resolve that societal issue and then the likes of OnlyFans goes away as the market dries up.
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  38. Maza appears to have been granted the power of Chief Censor that will have serious consequences for individuals. Who elected or employed Maza? Who is he responsible to? Who is he answerable to?
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  39. Hooking-up on Twitch = slap on the wrist. Criticising her for hooking-up on Twitch = ban or even prison if you live in the UK. Clown world.
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  40. This is designed to make life impossible on Twitter for Project Veritas, news and political outlets which are at odds with Twitter's ideology. Either go text only and have your follower numbers tank or violate the rules.
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  41. I will warn everyone now, particularly if you create content in the UK but it could have consequences beyond borders - if Lady Decade admits defeat by cutting the image out or pays up, the man leading this will declare victory and it will encourage other copyright owners and IP owners who refuse to acknowledge fair dealing (as fair use is known in the UK) will pounce and a lot of content creators will have the Sword of Damocles over their heads with invoices being issued left, right and centre - fair dealing will be effectively dead. It will kill off content creation in the UK and ensure that only large media conglomerates can create media content with no ability for anyone independent to enter. UK copyright and IP owners want monopolistic control of media and content. One British example, I can imagine Sega will have a massive pay day with Snopes Game Room considering all the game music he uses in the background - all copyrighted and certainly not under fair dealing. His content gone.
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  42. The ironic thing being is that if anonymity was not a thing a month ago, the former health secretary would still be health secretary right now, his indiscretions on the job not exposed and the whistle-blower doxxed and exposed. This will stuff whistle-blowers, people with uncomfortable truths, free speech and privacy. This is designed to ensure everyone thinks the same, express the same thoughts and quell dissent and offence, by doxxing, ruining the life of and removal of liberty for anyone who falls out of line.
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  43. Criticism of lockdowns, face masks and Victoria's handling of the pandemic will not be tolerated.
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  44. Is this the kind and compassionate politics that I keep hearing about from the same people who after demanding you stop being hateful, then make public their pleasure in the passing of a political opponent?
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  45. It won't end here. Mission creep will follow. Until it becomes a crime to criticise the Government or anyone.
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  46. I'll wager that "hate speech" will become an exception like insurrection, fighting words or obscenity.
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  47. They're now lobbying Government to criminalise unwanted and unrequited attention. What man wants to put their life, career and liberty on the line because a commentator got offended that said men are taking a logical and rational assessment of modern dating and don't want to destroy their lives?
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  48. Eventually YouTube will implement Widevine DRM on videos and that will make it illegal in many jurisdictions to circumvent it.
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  49. The UK might have one-up on Canada regarding spicy material. An influential Conservative MP speaking on behalf of the Government on a BBC panel show last weekend told tech firms to ban such content or they will ban it. This is a new threat separate from the forthcoming Online Safety Act and age verification. The UK might be the first western country that bans adult content online "for womens and children's safety".
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  50. Men were told to leave women alone, videos and articles telling men to stay away, don't approach and fear the consequences. Lobbying of politicians to deal with unwanted and unrequited attention is ongoing and proposed new laws are coming, Scotland first. Now there is a push to make consent retrospectively withdrawn at any time. No wonder why men are nervous, cautious or even opting-out. It is disgraceful that men are being mocked as cowards and belittled for taking a rational, logical look at modern dating dynamics.
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