Dependence on Big Tech as a Threat to Freedom | Walter Kirn

Watch the full speech at freedomlibrary.hillsdale.edu/...
“Dependence on Big Tech as a Threat to Freedom”
Walter Kirn
Author and Journalist
This speech was given on November 14, 2022, during a Hillsdale College CCA seminar on “Parallel Economies.”
- -
Support Hillsdale College: secured.hillsdale.edu/hillsda...
Visit our website: hillsdale.edu
Learn from our online courses: online.hillsdale.edu
Read Imprimis: imprimis.hillsdale.edu/
Undergraduate programs: www.hillsdale.edu/information...
Graduate School of Statesmanship: www.hillsdale.edu/academics/g...
Graduate School of Government: dc.hillsdale.edu/School-of-Go...
Listen to Hillsdale Dialogues Podcast: blog.hillsdale.edu/online-courses
Hillsdale College is an independent institution of higher learning founded in 1844 by men and women “grateful to God for the inestimable blessings” resulting from civil and religious liberty and “believing that the diffusion of learning is essential to the perpetuity of these blessings.” It pursues the stated object of the founders: “to furnish all persons who wish, irrespective of nation, color, or sex, a literary, scientific, [and] theological education” outstanding among American colleges “and to combine with this such moral and social instruction as will best develop the minds and improve the hearts of its pupils.” As a nonsectarian Christian institution, Hillsdale College maintains “by precept and example” the immemorial teachings and practices of the Christian faith.
The College also considers itself a trustee of our Western philosophical and theological inheritance tracing to Athens and Jerusalem, a heritage finding its clearest expression in the American experiment of self-government under law.
By training the young in the liberal arts, Hillsdale College prepares students to become leaders worthy of that legacy. By encouraging the scholarship of its faculty, it contributes to the preservation of that legacy for future generations. By publicly defending that legacy, it enlists the aid of other friends of free civilization and thus secures the conditions of its own survival and independence.

Пікірлер: 56

  • @blisstickmystic
    @blisstickmystic Жыл бұрын

    I rode with my neighbors when they brought their daughter Charlotte Kim to Hillsdale in the mid 70's. I didn't know anything about Hillsdale then but much respect now and God bless Hillsdale. Always making great Patriotic Americans

  • @maviskilpatrick7592
    @maviskilpatrick7592 Жыл бұрын

    Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

  • @Ass0280
    @Ass0280 Жыл бұрын

    So let’s see if I have this correct this phone tracking only works when you are out insurecting but not when you are out at 3am stuffing Zuckenbergs ballot boxes. 2000 Mules 7:55

  • @semyonbudyonny1895
    @semyonbudyonny1895 Жыл бұрын

    Dependence on crony/corporate “capitalism”; I.e., actually neo-fascism.

  • @NorwayT
    @NorwayT Жыл бұрын

    👉Dear Hillsdale College, Why have you started just showing clips of all the mind expanding talks that you host? I like the WHOLE STORY. I like to take it ALL IN and JUDGE FOR MYSELF. It's not that I don't trust you. But what you find interesting and/or important in an hour long Lecture might not be what I find interesting and/or important. SUGGESTION: Post ALL the Lectures and post them in their ENTIRETY. Then, in order to serve those, who for various reasons cannot watch the whole thing, make 15 minutes, 5 minutes and/or 2 minutes clips, which easily fits the superficial format of, for instance Social Media. Keep up the good work! 👍 And we will keep up supporting the BEST Place of Higher Learning on the Planet: Hillsdale College! 👍 Thank you!

  • @terryhackett2793

    @terryhackett2793

    Жыл бұрын

    There is a link to the full speech in the description below the video.

  • @FarbotBurunetNia
    @FarbotBurunetNia Жыл бұрын

    Thank you.

  • @ericchristen2623
    @ericchristen2623 Жыл бұрын

    Dependence on High Tech IS a definite threat to freedom and human rights. Please reconsider your title.

  • @rochellecaffee1417
    @rochellecaffee1417 Жыл бұрын

    I have been doubtful about technology as a “help” to the survival of mankind, from the very beginning, as well. My opinion is that our lives are coming to an end more quickly, as a race, thanks to technology. It is the “tower of Babylon” of our times.

  • @user-jd7xt5sm1j

    @user-jd7xt5sm1j

    Жыл бұрын

    ok then if you believe technology doesn't help our survival, refuse any medical treatment until you die.

  • @MsChitterchat

    @MsChitterchat

    Жыл бұрын

    My niece would not exist if it weren’t for technology. My Dad would not be alive if it weren’t for technology.

  • @rd264

    @rd264

    10 ай бұрын

    yep dependence on tech is near total. thats not healthy nor is it freedom. its the opposite. but its too late to choose a better way, to go down a more natural road. very few kids would know how to survive off the grid.

  • @martine8457
    @martine8457 Жыл бұрын

    Merci Monsieur 💥 👍 💥

  • @joyceoxfeld1352
    @joyceoxfeld1352 Жыл бұрын

    Oh!

  • @jonblake3395
    @jonblake3395 Жыл бұрын

    i killed the power to the house, waited 5 minutes, kicked open the door, and someone hit the deck.

  • @jimjones3223
    @jimjones3223 Жыл бұрын

    facebook has kept me out of so many family and friends lives and conversations for over a yr now.

  • @chucklesthered2338

    @chucklesthered2338

    Жыл бұрын

    facebook hates me, and I'm damned proud of it.

  • @jimjones3223

    @jimjones3223

    Жыл бұрын

    @@chucklesthered2338 not me bro. they've stolen memories, and perhaps opportunities.

  • @jimjones3223

    @jimjones3223

    Жыл бұрын

    @@chucklesthered2338 I also wonder if telling someone that you're suspended from a SMS like fb, does that plant a negative impression of you on someone else? defamation.

  • @chucklesthered2338

    @chucklesthered2338

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jimjones3223 The negative impression is all on fb.

  • @maviskilpatrick7592
    @maviskilpatrick7592 Жыл бұрын

    At this point Facebook, Twitter, KZread and etc are essentially public utilities in my opinion.

  • @indfnt5590

    @indfnt5590

    Жыл бұрын

    No they are not.

  • @stevensimpson8742

    @stevensimpson8742

    Жыл бұрын

    KZread's worldwide advertising revenues amounted to 7.96 billion U.S. dollars in the fourth quarter of 2022.🤔.

  • @maviskilpatrick7592

    @maviskilpatrick7592

    Жыл бұрын

    @@stevensimpson8742 so if they make enough money they can discriminate against people they don’t agree with?

  • @rd264

    @rd264

    10 ай бұрын

    appendages of NSA. whatever is said on those is spied upon, collected examined at will and who knows what else

  • @rd264

    @rd264

    4 ай бұрын

    except that they are not public nor are they utilities. Private entities, they arent subject to the Bill of Rights and can and do censor or ban like any business or corporation.

  • @JCResDoc94
    @JCResDoc94 Жыл бұрын

    *pretty sure the engine isnt being run by anyone anymore.* hard to say to which extent it ever entirely was. _JC

  • @jonblake3395
    @jonblake3395 Жыл бұрын

    ok.

  • @B.I.-EIO_macdonald9786
    @B.I.-EIO_macdonald9786 Жыл бұрын

    Ok

  • @karenduncan6004
    @karenduncan6004 Жыл бұрын

    She probably thinks the Clydesdale team needs to incorporate mares. Actually, that might work. All the current team are geldings, after all, not stallions.

  • @illinoisgospelfan650
    @illinoisgospelfan6504 ай бұрын

    what's wrong with the audio? it keeps getting lower and lower, and even with the volume turned completely up on the computer, it keeps fading. Is he just talking softer and softer?

  • @merlinwizard1000
    @merlinwizard1000 Жыл бұрын

    6th, 12 March 2023

  • @bobshaw8558
    @bobshaw8558 Жыл бұрын

    AND WE MADE THAT! AND EVERY or other countries (UFO)NOT REVERSE ENGINEERING RESEARCH ,SCALE PROTOTYPE MODEL ADVANCED PROTOTYPE WORKING FULL SCALE TO PRODUCTIONS

  • @kevinfagen5865
    @kevinfagen5865 Жыл бұрын

    So basically you're saying you want Obama to come back for five terms and put the whole country on Disability.

  • @rd264
    @rd2644 ай бұрын

    I HATE NSA and the goons that set it in motion and operate it

  • @JCResDoc94
    @JCResDoc94 Жыл бұрын

    *4:30** have you tried the de-age teen filter tho?* lota fun. 5:00 oh, we are really good at mapping ppl who turn the cells off as well. it is a trigr for a range of mechanisms. we've kxlled ppl using data of phones being off. im not jking. 6:10 well, thats why the tiktok hysteria doesnt matr; you think we dont just let them buy the data? ppl are angry bc tiktok cuts into sales bundles from our apps. _JC

  • @405OKCShiningOn
    @405OKCShiningOn Жыл бұрын

    great talk. i think since 1997 tech is here to help. not harm. its the data mgmt thats the question, not the help or aid or services AI bring for example dr todd grande did a good upload at youtube about chat gpt and its outcomes or the issue it arrived at. tech is new not scary. all beacuse its new doesnt make it scary. its new. AI is growing. I heard in 2000 or after there, ,there was a movie about AI around 2003. so right now tech is IQ 250+ and is around 22 to 25 years old. its new and expanding. all befcause life is expanding its not ending or in dire straits of threats.

  • @martinliehs2513

    @martinliehs2513

    Жыл бұрын

    What fail safes are built into it, and who has the "keys to the back door"?

  • @marianhunt8899

    @marianhunt8899

    Жыл бұрын

    The Military Industry Complex is part of big tech. It has caused death and destruction around the globe in all the 'forever wars'.

  • @dawnemile7499
    @dawnemile7499 Жыл бұрын

    This is catastrophizing. The machine can only store digital information.

  • @ruidadgmailcanada8508

    @ruidadgmailcanada8508

    Жыл бұрын

    Maybe, you definitely have Normalcy Bias. Which is why the US is doomed. 😮

  • @rd264

    @rd264

    5 ай бұрын

    no you obviously havent followed the multiple whistleblowing reports on NSA and CIA, so you dont understand this Talk by WK, and have no clue about whats going on: in violation of the 4th A., the NSA and CIA have been illegally seizing and searching the papers and effects of every person in the US for years by tapping email and telephone transmissions.

  • @voyd1507
    @voyd1507 Жыл бұрын

    ?????? That was it? Disappointing.

  • @poeboypoe
    @poeboypoe Жыл бұрын

    Duh. Dependence on capitalism as well.

  • @bobshaw8558
    @bobshaw8558 Жыл бұрын

    Well depends on what type engine MY 1967 GTO 400! or the 1978 403 I JUST BOUGHT! I only have had a few women really know That car And like it? THERE GRANDFATHER HAD ONE!