Comments by "Gareth Hart" (@tgheretford) on "Thunderf00t" channel.

China is a bit different from the rest of the world. It's easy for the authorities to deal with any dissenters using brutal and ferocious force, they don't have the concept of liberty and freedom (see the incoming Social Credit System) and the population is used to taking orders from its Government because there is no viable alternative. Western liberal democracies however, not so much.
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@gomahklawm4446 No you can't. All that has to happen is that activists, media outlets and politicians demand that your website should be deplatformed and you will lose your hosting, address, ability to use payment processors, be blacklisted, your app treated as a threat (virus) and removed from devices and your business ruined. You can't function on the Internet and sprout whatever you want.
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TL;DW: Freedom kills. Replace it with safety. Except for the case that risk, through capitalism, democracy and liberty has liberated and improved the quality of life of billions, allowed science to flourish and replace orthodoxy, create new technology and discoveries, allowed humanity to step on the moon and reduced poverty through the world through entrepreneurship, employment and the free market. A country that removes all risk from its citizens in favour of the utopia of total safety - from a virus, from death, from mean words - is one that will fail.
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If you want an idea of where we are going, view Roel Van de Paar's channel, who has the most uploaded videos on YouTube. Now imagine that across the whole of YouTube for every topic you can think of, not just answers from Slack Overflow threads. Now add every channel having a Patreon account into the mix and the realisation that the spread of advertising and subscription money isn't infinite. It will be the video equivalent of the Video Game Crash of 1983. Too much content, not enough quality control, not enough cash to go around.
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Every. Single. Time.
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No Government has ever used a historical emergency to push a political agenda? I live in a country where the Prime Minister has called for a "culture change" around masks. We have had 100 years to make this change but we waited until the Coronavirus before implementing this "change". Funny that. We're seeing the same rhetoric that we did twenty years ago, just that the phrase has changed from "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" to "wear the damn mask or you hate granny". In a few parts of the USA, this is extending into your own home by recommendation or law. Which I am sure every mask advocate is doing not just outside their home but also in their own home, social media profile pictures and the like without hesitation and promptly. If not wearing a mask really is as deadly as claimed, shouldn't we be treating violators as assassins, not merely slapping them on the wrist with a fine? This is not for a month. Not even a few months. As was the case post 9/11 with new laws and measures implemented. We did not implement the Patriot Act for a month. We did not implement clear bottles on planes for a month. We did not invade countries to bring about regime change for a month. It will be permanent. Sold in the UK post vaccine as a way to protect the NHS in winter, told that viruses do not care if you are at home or not and promoted as the "new normal" to insure against future pandemics. I'm sure the same arguments will apply to the USA and other countries too. As was the case with civil liberties a couple of decades ago, freedom will be sacrificed for safety. Eventually, there will be an outcome from those who value safety as paramount - the conclusion of freedom - libertarianism as a political theory is analogous to the conclusion of communism in its implementation in reality.
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21:09 - What is your view on the Danish mask study (DANMASK-19 or #DANMASK), of 6,000 individuals in a random controlled trial where three prestigious journals refused to publish the results on the basis of, according to a Danish newspaper, the results not being, and I quote, "politically correct"? In terms of onions being the rationale for masks not working, yeah, this ain't it chief. I'd rather listen to the scientists who did the Danish study. Well, when we are allowed to see the results. And at this point, considering the rationale given for the refusal to publish it, I hope it goes full Streisand Effect.
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I'd look to South Korea instead. A liberal democracy that is also getting its numbers under control.
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YouTube has misinformation policies now that could have the channel taken down. Ironically they're more likely to take down one of thunderf00t's videos than Riddle's. I personally am someone who tackles bad ideas with better ideas and oppose censorship.
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Our Government has made a promise to have my local area host the first prototype nuclear fusion reactor by 2040. Meanwhile, effective silence on any new fission reactors. The UK seems to be banking on renewables, batteries and fusion for their energy security policy.
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History doesn't repeat. It rhymes.
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I can't believe it's not Buttar! I'll see myself out.
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Talking from a UK perspective, we're now behind the scenes, moving away from "social distancing guidelines" which the public is being told to "social distancing law" which business is being told, from "we will get over this" to "adapt", from "resuming life as we remember it" to "the new normal". Government taking decisions by the court of public opinion and they relish the lockdown, welcome a 1984 East German style informant society, police forces having a vested interest to keep the restrictions going because of a massive fall in crime and the public welcoming the social cohesion and community spirit. The restrictions on civil rights and freedoms will likely become permanent because the public is voicing to the Government that it likes what it has seen.
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Sir Clive Sinclair's Quantum Leap computer?
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Thunderf00t's law - any optimistic scientific claim made will be busted. No exceptions.
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If masks have no effect on people being able to breathe, why are Governments giving exemptions on mask wearing for asthma sufferers, people with breathing difficulties and those with related conditions? Are they all being led by fake news and conspiracy theories?
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26:54 - Is this the same Czechia which introduced face mask and covering mandates early and yet... cases have exploded upwards?
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@hakancarlsson2881 Meanwhile in Spain, they didn't lift restrictions, if anything, tightened them - rise in cases. Same with France, the UK, Ireland, Belgium, Netherlands - away from Europe - Peru (very strict measures), Argentina and I could go on. I await with interest the DANMASK-19 results if a journal can be found that dares publish the results.
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@hakancarlsson2881 The only workable way to get to Zero Covid is North Korean style control. Permanent control. That won't be tolerated in western liberal democracies. It is utopian, unsustainable and impossible - the virus even breached North Korean defences. Indeed, disobedience, critique and rebellion is swelling up against lockdowns, mandates and measures where it will become unsustainable. Only a matter of time before they are forced to be lifted, as we have seen in Germany recently through court action.
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YouTube targeting anything that is not authoritative and mainstream (ie. what the advertisers want to pay for, the big media conglomerates with the cash, what gets eyes on screens and subscribers to pay for Premium). Something that the independent media outlets and journalists on YouTube have had to deal with for years. You may do better alerting the likes of CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, the BBC, Sky News, even the Daily Mail, Fox News et al. Because it does not matter if you are left or right, Trump or Biden, Boris or Corbyn, conspiracy theorist or debunker, this is YouTube pandering to those who they ideologically side with, whom have power and the cash versus those who are not useful to YouTube's bottom line.
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Free speech (subscription fee applies)! The only way Elon is going to get anywhere near the money he needs is a universal paywall. That seems to be the way his rhetoric is going, particularly with the advertisers and his views on spam, scam, bots and trolls. Problem is, he won't be getting all of the 300 million active users paying for access. Twitter is going behind a paywall, better to acknowledge that now than find out later when you are doing the digital equivalent of shouting in a cell.
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Only a matter of time before people in the UK are compelled to wear one in all settings, possibly even in your own home. Boris, having not handled the pandemic well, wants to lead the world in face coverings, create a "culture change" and make non-wearing of coverings and masks both shameful and criminal. Not just for any pandemic or for any second wave, but for good.
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We face the real prospect in future of wearing one for sixteen hours a day, seven days a week in the UK as we're heading to a position to lead the world on face coverings having done badly with dealing with the pandemic. Boris is talking of a "culture change" where we may potentially have to wear them in our own homes.
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There's a reason why Slopes Game Room has a series called "Kickscammers".
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Just tell YouTube that your video suggested that everyone should be forced to wear a mask in all settings, including in their own home and YouTube will reinstate the video in seconds.
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There is something to note as a result of the findings of the last two videos. The UK (and I am sure other countries too) are giving exemptions to those with breathing difficulties, anxiety, children and other conditions based on the very things that have been busted. Shouldn't these exemptions now be abolished and everyone forced to wear one in all settings?
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Virgin had a share in two rail franchises in the UK, the two biggest franchises in the UK, both the east (10%, brand franchised) and west coast (51%). The first went into state ownership in 2018 and the other went to another private company in 2019. I wonder how that will bear for Virgin Hyperloop?
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