The emergence of data-driven mass surveillance “is threatening to turn privacy into a relic of the 20th century,” says the anonymous YouTube creator known as Ordinary Things. Meanwhile, state-funded troll farms are spreading disinformation and curating chaos on platforms meant to connect us and revolutionize the way we live. Ordinary Things gives an enlightening account of the internet’s strengths and weaknesses, warning that the fight for a free internet is a fight for our collective future.
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Thato Mofolo
March 17, 2023 at 1:38 pm
Jesus Christ Yeshua He is King 👑🦁♥️😘💫
milon natural sinary in bangladesh
March 17, 2023 at 1:43 pm
wow nice video
1goldinga
March 17, 2023 at 1:46 pm
All the internet is run through cables owned by people. They are who have allways owned the internet. The fact that society things it’s ownerless is odd.
Austin Denotter
March 17, 2023 at 4:29 pm
Utopians dont believe in private property.
Jamie Miller
March 17, 2023 at 1:47 pm
“Its based on what people WANT to believe.” Regarding disinformation, nailed it again!
Zen
March 17, 2023 at 1:48 pm
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Namulema zulaika
March 17, 2023 at 1:53 pm
Now that you have taken up residence here in the Fabulous world, carve out time for yourself. Anchor a new habit that validates what solitude can give you. It can be as little as a minute a day.
Catch your reflection and don’t look away. Notice how you’re feeling. Give yourself a few minutes of self-care, where you sit down and soothe dry skin or think quietly while you fold clothes. Spend time outside without your phone. Is the sky empty of clouds today? Notice which plants are bursting and which are waiting to bloom.
Tune out everything else and tune into yourself.
Team Signal
March 17, 2023 at 4:13 pm
Love this! Thank you we all need to be reminded to do this everyday and more than we think we should.
U Cannot Defeat My Shmeat
March 17, 2023 at 2:01 pm
11:52 there is a whole story that can be told from these expressions alone
S Pieters
March 17, 2023 at 2:14 pm
Lmao especially that lady in the back hhh
S Pieters
March 17, 2023 at 2:16 pm
The blond man looks like Toby Mcmaguire spider man
U Cannot Defeat My Shmeat
March 17, 2023 at 2:04 pm
I like that he clearly went way past his timer
U Cannot Defeat My Shmeat
March 17, 2023 at 2:05 pm
14:36 I’m so happy to hear this, as the meme has been it’s a senior home has been around for years. One might call it the cable TV of social media
David Torres
March 17, 2023 at 2:30 pm
Man, Chad Michael Murray really let himself go
Dariune
March 17, 2023 at 2:36 pm
Oh look it’s Steeeede Bonnet, the gentleman pirate, where’s your 1/8th master?
1966human
March 17, 2023 at 2:40 pm
I got my ” I don’t see any pursuit of happiness” comment stolen from a review of The man with the high castle series, absolutely ridiculous
nevarran
March 17, 2023 at 3:30 pm
Good one.
sabretoof
March 17, 2023 at 3:34 pm
Great talk. Brilliant to see a young person expressing such thoughts. Good stuff.
leonard igweokolo
March 17, 2023 at 3:49 pm
His presentation feels like ART. Great…So, who owns the internet of the future?
NeonVisual
March 17, 2023 at 3:54 pm
Oh dear god
Alexander Bormotov
March 17, 2023 at 4:10 pm
Glad to see mention about Alexei Navalny, documental film about him have recieved Oscar recently
Austin Denotter
March 17, 2023 at 4:25 pm
Gates Zuck etc are heroes to the TED crowd.
George Naugles
March 17, 2023 at 4:27 pm
“😊We’re now wondering whether we are free”
Jacob Nelson
March 17, 2023 at 4:43 pm
Stay off the internet. Boom, problem solved.
PhysicsHack
March 17, 2023 at 5:15 pm
This guy has an amazing comedy channel. Really great talk!
Joel Hockin
March 17, 2023 at 5:25 pm
I fucking love this man
Joseph Lawrence
March 18, 2023 at 4:29 am
Who?
status
March 17, 2023 at 6:05 pm
In words of Maria Ressa ” Internet is a building that is deliberately created , when we open one door the next one opens itself” . No one to control this disinfo ,and to control these tech giants to have a fair check bcz our govt has their own interests in it.
A Dödi
March 17, 2023 at 7:40 pm
It’s great to see him here, it truly, shows that there is need of people who understand the digital world that we live nowadays.
Austin Denotter
March 17, 2023 at 8:59 pm
He talked about politics only.
Joseph Lawrence
March 18, 2023 at 4:28 am
Who is he, though?
K
March 17, 2023 at 7:42 pm
❤
Tina
March 17, 2023 at 11:26 pm
I do like your talk but how could you say that you loved that woman who appeared in the video. Actually, she was one of the supporters of the current government in Myanmar.
wira usahawan
March 18, 2023 at 1:07 am
As the sabotage, shutdown, blackout, we still need conventional for backup
Paing Htoo Khant
March 18, 2023 at 2:55 am
Plz help me I hope get Myanmar subtitle😢
AbdiShakur A.
March 18, 2023 at 8:46 am
Why include bezos but commit Google’s larry and sergey?
Gianluca Aiello
March 18, 2023 at 10:19 am
more than “how to save the internet” is an update on where the internet is: useful to raise awareness, useless if you already are aware.
zhuang zhuang
March 18, 2023 at 12:32 pm
讲得不错，赞😁
FizzFizzFizzFizzFizz
March 18, 2023 at 2:27 pm
I know that guy!
Invox
March 18, 2023 at 9:59 pm
Just like everything in the world, at some point some for of regulation will happear, because without it it can be harmful to the innocent or naive, or people might abuse it. We did it with food (FDA), we did it with movies (PG), and soon, sites and even Apps will have somekind of “label” to prevent us from falling into traps. TikTok is already being removed from some goverment smartphones because China’s goverment cannot be trusted not to be tanpering with it, and even THIS platform (YouTube) has already started by separating videos for, and not for, children. A welcomed beguinnig if I do say so myself.
한정숙
March 19, 2023 at 4:26 am
😅
TurtleHead Boys
March 19, 2023 at 8:18 am
Awesome job! Very well put together and 100 percent accurate.
50 Pence
March 19, 2023 at 10:27 am
This one’s sponsored by the Clinton Foundation
Idham Alawi
March 19, 2023 at 12:23 pm
Ttp nonton masio ramudeng
SimpleJack
March 19, 2023 at 1:51 pm
20 million subs averaging 30k views tells me all I need to know about this channels content
kamu747
March 20, 2023 at 6:15 am
What major stake of the internet does Bill Gates own? Seeing his photo in the 1st minute of this video with the claim that he owns the Internet has undermined the credibility of what I think he has to say. Should I even watch further…. ?
Oleksiy Alkhazov
March 20, 2023 at 7:26 am
12:13 navalny is a ruzzian neo-imperialist influencer, a kremlin agent actor performing a role of pseudo leader of a pseudo opposition. NATO considers him even a bigger danger than ruschists, who are now killing my people and destroying my country if Ukraine.
Oleksiy Alkhazov
March 20, 2023 at 7:28 am
Navalny is the enemy of the free world and western civilization as we know it