Why These Tech Billionaires Are Spying On Kids & What They Intend To Do Next
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What alarming trends are tech billionaires using to influence politics?
Today, I'm joined by journalist Taylor Lorenz Taylor. There is some really disturbing story reporting coming out of the paper formerly known as The Washington Post. Kylie, pop this up. Exclusive pro-Trump activists are circulating a draft executive order alleging Chinese interference. in the 2020 election proposing a national emergency to surprise, surprise, expand presidential power over voting, like banning mail ballots and voting machines. And then there's another headline here that JB Pritzker popped up. Trump seeking executive power over elections is urged to declare emergency. Activists say they are in coordination with the White House, are circulating a draft executive order that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.
It's been a while since I have had my civics class, Taylor, but it's my understanding that the Constitution exclusively says that voting is up to the states.
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
i also think you have the uh nicholas maduro who donald trump uh the government got and now they want him to say that 2020 was meddled with and i guarantee you the fix is in he's going to give nicholas maduro a pardon and so like you said they telegraph exactly what they're going to do especially loose lips dementia ridden kinks he's always giving, showing his hands, right? So the people that fund him, when we look at these oligarchs, Jeff Bezos is $45 million richer. Then you get to Elon Musk, billions of billions of billions of dollars richer. And then you get to Palantir. You have that coke head, Alex Karp, who's just a complete psychopath. And then Peter Thiel. And these people in this company are really diabolical.
And this is where your reporting really takes over. So please enlighten my viewers and listeners as to how dangerous companies like Palantir are and their surveillance plans for private citizens.
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
in all of these different surveillance efforts across the country and he wants to build this massive ai powered digital dragnet that can be used and abused by the government okay so age verification what i'm getting from here you from have kids and so as a parent you think age verification that sounds important that sounds good but are you suggesting that these companies are using our good will that we want children to be safe online and actually weaponizing children to erode Privacy, is that the allegation?
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
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