Erik Prince
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That's why Google and Apple...
And the other big three, big five tech firms are some of the largest economies on Earth.
If you have their combined GDPs, it's one of the largest countries on the planet.
It's shocking.
And it started after 9-11.
And it exploded as smartphones came into being.
And that's why it is amazing what people give up willingly and largely out of ignorance.
And a lot of people think, well, I don't care.
But now in an era of AI, where now machines can start to, I don't know, groom your preferences.
Apple just announced that in their next upgrade coming this fall, that they're going to actually put chat GPT on every iPhone to collect and analyze all the data of yours that's flowing through an iPhone if you're using it.
It is shocking what big tech thinks they can get away with.
And look-
Some people are sheep and they want to live like sheep and be treated like sheep.
And, uh, you know, not everyone is a sheep.
Yeah.
I, I, having been, um, having, having seen the abuses of law enforcement and a politicized politicized government organs, and especially after the 2020 election, um,
Seeing them cancel certain voices, throwing people off of app stores or whatever for being an election denier or questioning COVID or all this nonsense.
I said, we got to have our own phone independent of the Google and Apple universe that they can't cancel.
And because we had a team together...
Already that had done a lot of offense and defensive cyber around phones, including building a completely separate operating system for a secure phone and even one that controls pacemakers.