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@GodlessPhilosopher
November 17, 2025 at 5:11 pm
Yeah 20 years ago dude
@Hefe-oj4ec
November 17, 2025 at 5:17 pm
it already is?
@ghettospacefsh6251
November 17, 2025 at 5:24 pm
could you have chosen a worse thumbnail?
@gerardmarcus6580
November 17, 2025 at 5:27 pm
Become?
@ttambm8639
November 17, 2025 at 5:41 pm
Yes. Saved you a click.
@sophieplazas_fm
November 17, 2025 at 5:44 pm
I loved this format, please keep creating videos like this!
@LuckieWarrior
November 17, 2025 at 5:46 pm
Palantir is watching and listening
If you think they aren’t, just a few years ago we learned the NSA was already doing that with far LESS sophisticated technology, imagine now with AI and the even more centralized data we share.
Bring everything offline. Delete Socials, Ditch the Phones, Assume nothing is Private!
@jimcombs361
November 17, 2025 at 5:50 pm
There is no country in the world that doesn’t have some level of surveillance people.
@OAN3476
November 17, 2025 at 5:54 pm
Not just the us. The us didn’t invest in security infrastructure. So they’re not really any fire walls, or key chains, or anything on the public networks. Plus, they’re are plenty of bad faith actors and good faith actors that know how to utilize what each one knows to do the same thing as each other. So Microsoft leaves a back door, the others know it’s there and to test it. For everyone that provides their own, or another entities, cyber security.
@carpo719
November 17, 2025 at 5:55 pm
Is that a question???
@Bubo-Scandiacus-Hoot
November 17, 2025 at 6:01 pm
You’re not Incognito Mode. We know that Internet Historian looks and sounds different.
@nitrox58
November 17, 2025 at 6:02 pm
Ofcourse it has…just think flock.
@ivarb629
November 17, 2025 at 6:04 pm
We’ve been a surveillance state since the Patriot act
@dpg227
November 17, 2025 at 6:11 pm
If Americans live in a surveillance state, how is it that there are so many porch pirates with so few getting caught? How do we have so much illegal dumping, illegal public drug use, drug dealing, and vandalism, in addition to more serious crimes, if all the government had to do is identify people with facial recognition and issue arrest warrants? The truth is many people are not honest and trustworthy and need to be watched in public areas where there is no expectation of privacy in order to protect the majority of honest, peaceable citizens and the quality of life in the community. And refusing to implement such tools out of an oversensitivity to privacy rights has a high cost because it means these problems will continue to fester.
@rexbk09
November 17, 2025 at 6:36 pm
❤
@ryanjones4917
November 17, 2025 at 6:37 pm
This has been a problem for a long time and should not be partisan in nature.
@rosemariebredahl9519
November 17, 2025 at 6:40 pm
Adding AI to process the surveillance data is “cause for pause”. 🚩⚖️🙏
@Mx_E_is_me
November 17, 2025 at 6:43 pm
A cybersecurity expert here: activate lockdown mode on your phone, that makes you harder to track,
And only search in incognito mode.
@kgblankinship
November 17, 2025 at 6:55 pm
I would define a surveillance state as mass surveillance of the entire population to identify, track, and amass information on threats to the ruling order.
@coolcycles
November 17, 2025 at 7:04 pm
Pretend ”He too” and the apparatus will remove him.
@user-tx9zg5mz5p
November 17, 2025 at 7:17 pm
Palantir is the Patriot Act on steriods and meth. Pure evil!
@Canrugger
November 17, 2025 at 7:39 pm
Yes…there saved you 16 min
@robertito2030
November 17, 2025 at 7:48 pm
A comment for the algorithm! People need to open their eyes to this issue!
@SullyAfgarshe
November 17, 2025 at 8:13 pm
I think to be a nation state is to be a surveillance state in some form or fashion or in some circumstances, regardless of era…governments have always had the ability to surveil, and prior to the last couple of decades that surveillance was more targeted and selective
I mean what is it that intelligence agencies do? just look at the NSA and all the other government agencies in the US that can easily surveil and gather information on anyone…
just go back to the origins of policing in the US…we all know why police agencies were initially created, and just look at those same agencies today…
@live_free_or_perish
November 17, 2025 at 8:16 pm
Surveillance in the US is nothing compared to Russia and China. The motivation for surveillance in the US is commercial, not political.
@keithwhaley9424
November 17, 2025 at 11:38 pm
Why don’t you talk about Trump demanding the release of the Epstein. Files and the DEMOCRATS COLLIDING WITH A P-DO. You are a bunch of left wing hypocrites who run and hide. Cowards.
@M3SSIAH-69
November 18, 2025 at 12:08 am
America is a 9. Because we just don’t know all the details. They have the capabilities, tools, and funding, etc etc.
@tousenoart
November 18, 2025 at 12:18 am
harrison! smh
you don’t have enough funding to do your own stories?
@joeynighthawk1645
November 18, 2025 at 12:34 am
Calling it a surveillance economy instead of a surveillance state is nonsense. The automatic license plate readers provided by Flock are outsourced, but they’re bought and paid for by the government. Do you think the missiles and bombs made by companies like Honeywell are exempt just because Honeywell isn’t a government agency? Do you think Harris Technologies, maker of the Stingrays the DHS put in the hands of police departments throughout the country are exempt because they’re not a government agency? Just because something is outsourced doesn’t mean it’s not part of a surveillance state. Especially when the state is paying them.
@DavidMartinez-g4z
November 18, 2025 at 1:13 am
We all that the road that the US is going . Big brother watching us and everything we do . Big brother is nosy . There in everyone business .
@OJTPhD
November 18, 2025 at 1:42 am
Yeah… duh!
@TheSonic10160
November 18, 2025 at 2:52 am
So long as PRISM has existed, it’s a surveillance state
But there’s been elements of surveillance state apparatus since the McCarthy era
@kulak-lee
November 18, 2025 at 4:46 am
How is it you guys overlook Palestine and West Bank as surveillance states> How is it?
@Truckngirl
November 18, 2025 at 5:17 am
Do you guys know how lame you sound without mentioning the 80,000 Flock cameras across the US? How they can utilize facial recognition and store it in spite of them saying otherwise? Garrett Langley? Why are you going on and on about North Korea and China? Surveillance is NOW. Benn Jordan’s channel can fill you in if you have no idea what I’m talking about.
@seermayton-el3488
November 18, 2025 at 7:05 am
This a week after having a Palantir ad? Interesting disscusion choice Wired
@nyrixx
November 18, 2025 at 9:29 am
this is possibly one of the most naive western brain conversations I have seen in recent memory.
@MidTownHomie
November 18, 2025 at 10:25 am
Are these people pretending as if FBI or for that matter any intelligence agency in this world not conduct surveillance on their own citizens , Chinese and Russian are explicit whereas in the West its shrugged under the carpet till some scandal happens , hilarious to see people rating US as close to happening a surveillance state when it’s actually is one and has been there for a very long time
@clairewithbanjo4992
November 18, 2025 at 11:27 am
The patriot act was passed 20 years ago dude
@Xavier-uknonada
November 18, 2025 at 12:30 pm
They sell mind reading subscriptions to employers. It’s thru your phone. Put your ear buds in so we can listen better. They want you to.
You’re pretty late.
@zuur303
November 18, 2025 at 12:58 pm
It is most certainly one for visitors (even tourists) when your freedom of speech is challenged at the border. Share your social media, or else. No thanks.
@mh3lroy
November 18, 2025 at 1:04 pm
yeah , ICE is above the law. As Polish we have history with some Germans acting above the law
@bruja_cat
November 18, 2025 at 2:44 pm
Big Brother is watching. George Orwell is a prophet now.
@urbanstrencan
November 18, 2025 at 3:24 pm
everyone else is talking just about China surveillance over their people, so this was so great to hear actually someone talking about the US and their surveillance over people and making them just paranoid.
great video keep it up 🤟
@jarojoe6938
November 18, 2025 at 3:37 pm
At the very least everybody here has a camera phone w/screenshotting capabilities + cancel culture
@dairymold
November 18, 2025 at 5:57 pm
You have no idea what you’re talking about when it comes to the DPRK.
@meepmop666
November 18, 2025 at 6:03 pm
becoming? it’s BEEN a surveillance state this whole time
@ReallyRealBenMills
November 18, 2025 at 6:04 pm
I would call the US a surveillance society.
@paulcooper1046
November 18, 2025 at 6:04 pm
As technology evolves, governments will use it to their advantage always and at all times. Period.
Move on. There’s nothing that can be done about it.
This conversation is taking place on YouTube. Think about it…😂
@BurtHandsome101
November 18, 2025 at 8:13 pm
“I give it about a 6 outta 10. Unless you’re a minority, then yes, definitely a surveillance state.” Classic
@BaldwinsGhost
November 18, 2025 at 8:17 pm
United States is country run by the police. Everything is war all the time. Everything is crime all the time. In every town and city the police run the city. Now what do you call a state run by the police?
@mellowyellohkim
November 18, 2025 at 9:06 pm
The veneer of freedom 👀.. …
@loyolom
November 18, 2025 at 9:55 pm
America is a police and surveillance state, Americans are just too dumb to realise it….No surprise there
@killingfield
November 18, 2025 at 11:02 pm
Does it make me a bad person that I really wanted all three to push up their glasses with one finger simultaneously 😅🤣
@killingfield
November 18, 2025 at 11:07 pm
This is America. We’re a 10. It’s just corps making the money first, then letting the government have the scraps.
@killingfield
November 18, 2025 at 11:18 pm
The US is a Constitutional Republic, not a democracy.
@Blazinman12
November 18, 2025 at 11:28 pm
So y’all acknowledge ICE using surveillance technology but white people still feel like America is at a 6-8 lol cool
@juicethreetwo
November 19, 2025 at 1:14 am
Becoming?
@ForBarbados246
November 19, 2025 at 11:10 am
Already is
@pieterpennings9371
November 19, 2025 at 6:21 am
As a European: yes, most definitely. People are being arrested and deported for saying things the regime doesn’t like.
@masterroshi4714
November 19, 2025 at 8:31 am
Aak FLOK. The private business tracking your every movement throughout your daily lives.
@philstone5195
November 19, 2025 at 8:43 am
I’m more aware of what I publicly state (especially online), and careful about what I post. Yes, we are in an emerging surveillance state.
@saswaths3372
November 19, 2025 at 10:32 am
ok this is a complete bias as if dems didn’t surveill
@calebplumleeoutdoors
November 19, 2025 at 11:02 am
The entire modern world is a surveillance state.
@ForBarbados246
November 19, 2025 at 11:09 am
That was the plan for decades, it’s not just America 🇺🇸 but the world too, all due to the WEF “ sustainability “ goals. UNAGENDA2030
@Cinteck
November 19, 2025 at 1:16 pm
We’ve been a surveillance state since the inception of Social Media.
@akamaiprepper
November 19, 2025 at 1:19 pm
American is a Republic not a Democracy. Democracy means mob rules.
@andrewgray573
November 19, 2025 at 1:59 pm
Yes. /thread
@MrMcWitt
November 19, 2025 at 2:55 pm
Hmm 🤔
@philipcollins408
November 19, 2025 at 2:59 pm
A democracy ? Please.😂
@Turethtelecom
November 19, 2025 at 3:50 pm
State#42+92‽
@nocta2121
November 19, 2025 at 6:37 pm
The one expert who says the US is not here yet also agrees to every single point made by the one who says it’s now enough in the process of becoming one that it can be said to be one, and also concedes that the US is already a surveillance state to several demographics…I guess he was told to argue the “no” point but it was impossible to do so
@martinote510
November 19, 2025 at 7:22 pm
the fake mussolini quote reminds us that fascism is really about control by the corporations. let’s not excuse the US govt for having oursourced surveillance to the tech giants
@UmbroKhan
November 19, 2025 at 7:36 pm
Should we use Brave or Firefox browser with uBlock Origin?
@Ardent_Ape
November 19, 2025 at 7:42 pm
Lmao its BEEN a surveillance state for longer than any of the humans alive have been around
@DSentomXHunta
November 19, 2025 at 8:29 pm
The answer is YEESSSSS
@ExposingCorruption2025
November 19, 2025 at 9:50 pm
Its been one for a very very long time.
@episdosas9949
November 19, 2025 at 10:08 pm
north korea got 1 in 20. the united states got 1 in 12 people are a police informant.
@episdosas9949
November 19, 2025 at 10:09 pm
look at mac carthyism. and now they re monitoring social media for dissent.
@zinaantoanetasabaudarling3344
November 19, 2025 at 11:11 pm
Right!
I downloaded Tor on my phone, but I couldn’t use it for the other settings I did not control precluded it.
But I’m a targeted individual, so not only that the US is a surveillance state for me ans so many others, surveillance is THE FIRST STEP, otherwise what would be the point of it?
To what?
You’ll find out sooner or later
@cupofjavaproductions3138
November 20, 2025 at 1:30 am
Gangstalking victims have been telling everyone this for years.
@AppreciateYourComment
November 20, 2025 at 10:40 am
I bet someone into voyeurism a long time ago thought of this 1st. The agencies were like yeah that’s a great idea to watch people in their private moments without them knowing. Now it’s just common practice and going to grow until we can get the chip in our brain. 😂
@indigochildrenkilledusall
November 20, 2025 at 12:43 pm
y’all have contributed and yes, duh
also, the US President called for a federal execution of multiple members of Congress today
@JaSmiNEtherlands
November 20, 2025 at 2:17 pm
Wired is a far left communist youtube channel that puts agenda in as many of their tech support videos as they can 😢
@AriaUnderStars
November 22, 2025 at 7:39 am
Not everything you don’t like is far left communism. Nuance exists.
@MyXoMaToSiS601
November 21, 2025 at 9:47 am
Put diaper sniffing don in a dark hole before we hit 10/10
@Posh_Quack
November 21, 2025 at 3:48 pm
“We have the choice to use VPNs or tor”
aaaand now we don’t.
@JRDS214
November 22, 2025 at 2:25 pm
The US is a surveillance state a 10. Im being gangstalked by a fundamentalist religious culture
@Old-School-Liberal
November 22, 2025 at 3:47 pm
Flock cameras are now in my neighborhood. I want to take a bat and smash them.
@Ilvermorny_dropout
November 23, 2025 at 7:09 am
We’ve always been
@Guerra-5G-Holocausto-Global
November 24, 2025 at 8:27 am
Yes! Search for Targeted Individual and Organized Stalking, an evolution of Zersetzung.
@zachw1
November 24, 2025 at 12:08 pm
GMAFB. You couldn’t post anything about masks or question the vaxx or say anything about the origins in wuhan without being shadow banned, censored, or labeled misinformation during the Biden reign. But the “current climate” is pushing the US now. Yeah ok
@GentlemanJamesWin
November 24, 2025 at 7:28 pm
“Forced into the drug trafficking trade” give me a break.
@MithraLuna
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 pm
who is wondering? lol? after 9/11 we have been.