John Willis He is boring still at 12 minutes. He sure loves the sound of his own voice.
@thegrumpyhypnotist5 жыл бұрын
Ferguson starts at 7:00
@frankw29004 жыл бұрын
thegrumpyhypnotist Thank you!
@DavidKirwanirl4 жыл бұрын
The lines in the background is making me cross eyed, had to change browser tab and just listen.
@brucevilla4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for Uploading.
@danlacina75624 жыл бұрын
that background Niall is walking past is making my eyes hurt.
@Broomtwo3 жыл бұрын
Extrapolating out the point that the internet networks in recent years have become rather centralized rather than decentralized like when Trump won in 2016, it was likely a very important variable in Trump losing the election later in 2020, when this speech was made (beyond just covid being a thing). The centralized internet vastly disempowered the grassroots social media campaign Trump had in 2016, in 2020 people were spoon-fed what to think by the big social media monopolies.
@funny-video-YouTube-channel4 жыл бұрын
Nice talk. He will be amazed about the next step in the evolution of the Internet. He thought that social network monopolies were bad and evil. Wait till we get the unstoppable decentralized networks. It will be like the current social networks on steroids. He will wish the FB came back, because it was at least manageable to some degree. Memes will rule the world.
@CJinsoo3 жыл бұрын
Memes are far better than Oligarchs and Monopolies that censor all dissent.
@holdingsteadfast3 жыл бұрын
@@CJinsoo That is without realizing that the ones who control the memes are oligarchs and monopolies
@davidanderson96644 жыл бұрын
I can forgive conservatives if they're smart enough. For the past 30 years I've been reading/watching him N.F. hasn't let me down. D.A., J.D., ultra-liberal NYC :-)
Did you retweet Russian content too? Just checking the data
@jameswebb45934 жыл бұрын
It used to be said. I might not agree with what you said, but I will defend your right to say it. Those days are gone , mention the unmentionables is liable to get you banned from using the sites, or have it deleted. On Utube its not uncommon to have comments disabled , on subjects deemed to contraversal.
@aperson27304 жыл бұрын
6:50 He starts speaking
@guharup3 жыл бұрын
Too late. I already paid
@jscottfischer3 жыл бұрын
Right on the money
@roc7880 Жыл бұрын
The internet was free because the regulations kept it from privatization. For Denial Fergusson freedom is just the right of corporations to privatize and control the internet.
@johnnydawson76753 жыл бұрын
He got the year wrong on Westphalia, as he said it was 1548. It was a century later.
@markh79153 жыл бұрын
Oof, that last point he made - 'the founding fathers sufficiently guarded against a future demogogue usurping the consitution' - had me shouting 'no!' at the screen. Americans are rightly concerned about our lack of consensus on the integrity of our elections now, and we have good reason to think people will work in bad faith to subvert future elections while claiming that's what the other side is doing. That particular check and balance is in dire straits, and is a linchpin of functional democracy. Niall, at this point in time you were wrong about the damage to the country that the Trump presidency would create.
@seanwieland97634 жыл бұрын
Why is it an anachronism to hold end-users solely responsible for the content they produce?
@tinymetaltrees4 жыл бұрын
Because it’s not up to you or up to the end-user (creator) if you see it. It’s up to the platform to make it available, except when it’s not profitable. Then it’s the platforms job to show you things that make you profitable to it and hide things that make you less profitable, which changes it into a publisher. You are the product being sold to advertisers (and worse, no doubt). They are tallying engagement, including my response and even if you look at this but don’t respond. Tally it all to show that we are worth the price they are asking.
@xthinker883 жыл бұрын
Because if you pass laws holding the platform liable then you can vastly increase overall government control giving the tower the advantage over the square. China has already done it. And wants to do it more. It makes Ferguson shiver. Yet he’s all on board with doing it here. Because obviously our authoritarians will be better blokes (although history says otherwise).
@monirahqahtani49024 жыл бұрын
I realized how wrong I was very late
@jasip10004 жыл бұрын
I’m not allowed to be on the Facebook network, they closed down my account. I don’t think they like me very much, at Facebook.
@tinymetaltrees4 жыл бұрын
Good job!
@nickelmouse4515 жыл бұрын
Homer Simpson does not say "well boh!"...
@petermacgibbon80634 жыл бұрын
D'oh!!
@goedelite3 жыл бұрын
Please spare us so many Niall Ferguson video clips. His opinions have no worth. He is a mouthpiece for the establishment. He does not have intellectual integrity.
@Soul-zl6bb4 жыл бұрын
N. Ferguson may rattle as he will, it makes no difference. Suppose I am building an aeroplane. While I’m doing it, N. Ferguson is rattling that it won’t fly. I ignore him. I just keep on building my aeroplane, and it flies. The rattler keeps on rattling. So what? N. Ferguson may rattle as he will - don’t feed the troll. Paul Krugman said that too. N. Ferguson can’t stand that.
@guharup3 жыл бұрын
Too much rattling
@Chaiserzose3 жыл бұрын
It looks like he took a class of Italian and wants to show off. Also, I don't think Italians needed a British to tell them what a tower means in terms of power symbology. I am pretty sure they knew it, when they build it. Also, I think they noticed it, being there in the last 600 years in EVERY FUCKIN ITALIAN TOWN. I think someone had plenty of time and looking for an idea for a new book during his last Italian holidays...
@muskduh4 жыл бұрын
Niall Ferguson is highly overrated but his books are pretty good.
@guharup3 жыл бұрын
Hierarchies are natural and inevitable
@SB_McCollum2 жыл бұрын
@40:00 this didn't age well, but he will never admit it. He was clever once, but hasn't been able to keep up with the speed of history for over a decade - and we all know that was forever ago now. He's a fairly good historian, he needs to go back to some other century to potter about in.
@Dstonephoto3 жыл бұрын
Oh this is just gross. How did I stumble on this
@tthex64844 жыл бұрын
Boring
@MrBoreray4 жыл бұрын
What exactly were you expecting ? A dance routine from NF perhaps or maybe a fireworks display,the BIG question is, how did you end up on this site and, even more to the point, who held that gun to your head and forced you to watch the whole thing ?