Comments by "Matthew Nirenberg" (@matthewnirenberg) on "The Only Places Where Privacy Still Exists" video.

@ARUchannel1 Actually they are. Freedom has risks and only the safety you can provide for yourself. If you're not allowed to use firearms to protect yourself in self-defence, if you can't legally use anything in self-defence, then you are NOT free - you are a subject/ward of the state. Safety is having mummy government control your life, what you can and can't do whilst telling you that if you so much as strike anyone in self-defence you will go to jail. You have either freedom or safety - you can't have both. If you don't understand this, you deserve neither. Freedom is more important.
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@NGC1433 Even they can't. As long as you're able to change which DNS servers your computer or router use, you can use secure DNS servers and then run "stealth" vpn's. Even the Great FIrewall of China can't stop "stealth" vpn's. Also, even China permits VPN's as without VPN's companies can't connect all their locations with Site-To-Site VPN, nor could their staff remote in and work when out and about or at conferences. As long as businesses exist, and DNS servers can be changed, "stealth" vpn's will exist and can't be stopped. Incase you're wondering what "stealth" VPN's are - they are VPN's that operate over other protocols or that appear to be different services such as OS updates, video streaming, etc. If you think requiring a govt ID to do things online will work, understand this - there'll always be other alternatives that don't require it and unless the govt takes control of every server and physically stops everyone else from hosting servers, this will never change. This is why a lot of "consumer" networking equipment has been "locked-down" - i.e. no more creating ad-hoc networks (LAN or WLAN), no more fine control of every setting like you used to get in the late 90's. Currently, you either need to use "Enterprise" equipment or build your own router with something like pfSense to get fine control over everything. The key thing now is that anyone who cares about privacy should do is to get a good VPN, and if offered a "Lifetime" deal, to take up such an offer. To select a good VPN google "Tom Spark's VPNTierList" and look at his list - it covers everything including which ones passed privacy audits.
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Only a fool wants surveillance. There is absolutely zero need for it. Let everyone carry firearms for protection and let them use them for self-defence without fear of being treated as criminals. An armed society is a polite society. Literally everywhere in the USA with SFA firearm laws are the safest parts of the country. The parts of the USA with the tightest laws are responsible for over 90% of all firearm crime in the USA.
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@Sean85Laney Utter rubbish - surveillance doesn't reduce crime, all it does is enable the govt to issue fines for the most minor things. If surveillance cut down crime, then AU wouldn't be a crime-riddled shithole with daily shootings and shops getting torched every other day. Surveillance doesn't document history happening - only the govt ever sees the surveillance recordings. Please get a serious reality check as you seem to trapped in some braindead utopia that doesn't exist anywhere on the planet.
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You can't naturalize anywhere without being fingerprinted. Also, want a professional licence, a licence of basically any type (i.e. not just for firearms or security but marine, truck, bulldozer, liquor, etc.) and you have to be fingerprinted. In this current time, the main biometric you should never give a govt is an iris scan as laws already exist that enforce guilt the moment an security system registers an iris scan match. Avoid, USA, Japan, the Middle East, etc. who require iris scans.
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