Taylor Lorenz

yeah absolutely i think this is just i mean it's wild because they're just doing it all out so in the open now and it's also just revealing like it's really mad libs with them it's like china voting you know you know what i mean when has china interfered directly in our voting system this was not even an allegation that they were trying to make until recently it's just absurd

Yeah, well, I think a lot of people are familiar with Palantir now and the massive data harvesting, the way that they are completely intertwined as well with like weapons manufacturing, et cetera.

But Peter Thiel's goal has always been a lot bigger than just Palantir.

I think Palantir is a company that everybody knows, but I think

As Palantir expands its surveillance net, we also have to look at some of the other companies that Peter Thiel is funding.

For instance, this company, Persona, which has suddenly become overnight one of the primary identity age verification tools that major social platforms and gaming platforms like Discord and Roblox are using now to verify identity.

This is also a Peter Thiel company.

He's got his hands

Yeah, absolutely.

That's actually what we're seeing directly happen.

And if you don't believe me, you can listen to groups like the Digital Childhood Alliance, which sounds like a great family friendly group.

They post all day on Instagram about cracking down on big tech.

Well, who funds the Digital Childhood Alliance?

It came out in a desert news article recently that Meta funds them.

um you know that this this idea of age verification again as you mentioned it sounds good we all want kids to be safe online it is so hard to grab a phone out of a child's hand these days um but but it is essentially um you know in order to do age verification you have to remove anonymity from the internet because you got to know who people are to know how old they are and that's when the danger comes especially because the trump administration's explicit goal is to remove anonymity from the internet

So we actually have a ton of really good data and studies showing that removing anonymity doesn't make people nicer.

Believe it or not, one would think you would think that like these people wouldn't say this stuff with their government names.

I invite anybody who believes that to spend a little time in the Facebook comment section.

People will say the most vile stuff with like full on profile pictures of them holding their kids.

You're right.