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Mass surveillance

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Oct 31, 2026

NickHOST
2:03
it was him locking yeah I
Caleb FrancisGUEST
2:07
just been trending towards mass surveillance in a way that I feel like is just not healthy man for a freedom for a quote-unquote free country dude that's not doesn't sound very free to me
NickHOST
2:17
yeah yours is right here yours is over there yeah I like yours better it's at least on that fairway
Caleb FrancisGUEST
2:22
yeah I'm gonna go pick up my yeah
Caleb FrancisGUEST
2:48
And that's part of the thing with guns, too.
Caleb FrancisGUEST
2:50
You know, like, of course, we're going to have some gun crimes, you know, but but I think that the downside outweighs the or the upside outweighs the downside and guns.
Caleb FrancisGUEST
2:58
And when it comes to just like mass surveillance, the less the better.
Caleb FrancisGUEST
3:01
It's always going to be packaged as this is for safety.
Bobby NicholsGUEST
18:58
Yeah.
Ramses JaHOST
18:58
Now you talked about the flock cameras creating a mass surveillance.
Ramses JaHOST
19:05
You use the word dragnet.
Ramses JaHOST
19:06
I'm not sure if that was the word that I'm trying to say now, but, um, Talk to us a little bit about how, because obviously people cannot conceive of that.
Ramses JaHOST
19:17
I certainly couldn't until I went over there, but how mass surveillance could be long-term, you know, sort of the, Uh, first they came for these folks and I didn't say anything.
Ramses JaHOST
19:31
Then they came for these folks and I didn't say anything.
Ramses JaHOST
19:32
And then when it came for me, there was nobody to say anything.
Ramses JaHOST
19:35
You know what I mean? Yep.
Julian DoreyGUEST
35:28
And, you know, obviously there's small minorities on each side that I guess are dumb enough to buy into some of these narratives.
Julian DoreyGUEST
35:33
And they really don't like mass surveillance either.
Julian DoreyGUEST
35:36
So, you know, after going through this long period of where, you know, people thought it was going to be death if the other party won, you know, people who are hardcore on one side or the other.
Julian DoreyGUEST
35:46
There's a kumbaya opportunity here, and this is where my optimism is a little more cynical.

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Julian DoreyGUEST
54:44
It's just, it's just, it's the only simple thing I can see.
Josie GlabachHOST
54:50
I wanted to, we've been talking, this has been such a great discussion.
Josie GlabachHOST
54:54
I wanted to get into, talk about mass surveillance and data tracking
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54:58
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Oct 28 · 1 Mention

ChrisHOST
16:04
So it feels like, I don't know what it is, but there's several things that maybe I'm floating around on.
ChrisHOST
16:10
Like number one is when it's individual action taken on individual property, that's different than mass surveillance done in public spaces that you don't even know is being rolled out and you don't know how it's being used.
ChrisHOST
16:21
And then systems that are private and self-hosted, that's a whole other category.
ChrisHOST
16:26
You could still use the data, but it's up to you what you do with it.
MatejHOST
21:14
Look, bad actors will always find means to communicate, right? Either be it, like, what was the special telephone? Sky something.
MatejHOST
21:23
um that you know it was sold and then um and the the law enforcement i think actually was able to infiltrate it and then if people just make a small mistake of revealing some part of their identity able to basically track them down and catch them right so i i wouldn't say you know that you should go after um the ones who enable real really good private technology right it's Look, find the people, you know, hack them if you need to on a case by case basis, you know, because we went from, you know, court orders for, you know, wiretapping phones and all that to, you know, just mass surveillance because some 0.001% might be doing something illegal.
MatejHOST
22:14
And we're just going to listen to everybody and see who's
MarkoHOST
22:17
doing that.
MarkoHOST
22:24
It's not about finding criminals.
MarkoHOST
22:26
As you say, they will always find a way.
MarkoHOST
22:28
And mass surveillance has also been the big topic now with AI, right? That was the big beef between Entropic and the government.
MarkoHOST
22:35
It's crazy how we're really going back to this after there was a break, like after the Snowden reveals.
Tim FoleySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
141:06
Do not succumb to the delusion that artificial intelligence is being aggressively advanced because the oligarchs and empire managers just want to sell us helpful chatbots.
Tim FoleySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
141:14
These technologies are being developed as rapidly as possible because they want mass surveillance and autonomous weapons systems to suppress revolutions and revolutionary sentiment and keep us trapped in this capitalist dystopia forever.
Tim FoleySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
141:26
it's just amazing how quickly ai is making everything worse it's assaulting the environment ruining art turning everyone into an unthinking moron making people crazy and suicidal flooding the information ecosystem with fake videos and misinformation all while rapidly making it possible for a small group of powerful individuals to control and monitor every facet of our lives using advanced technology This perversion of the human species is what we are being told we need to make sacrifices for in order to ensure that AI develops very quickly, as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has proclaimed.
Tim FoleySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
141:55
In a recent interview with Politico, Altman argued that too many safeguards and regulations will slow down the advancement of these new technologies, saying the following.
Joe AllenGUEST
12:09
It was initially, by the way, it was first coined by Teilhard de Chardin and then picked up by Julian Huxley in his 2000, I'm sorry, 1956 essay, Transhumanism.
Joe AllenGUEST
12:21
But Max Moore is very much of a – he is in no way, shape, or form an advocate for mass surveillance or a global system or even large-scale governmental systems.
Joe AllenGUEST
12:32
He's still very much a libertarian of the late 90s variety, very much pro-freedom.
Joe AllenGUEST
12:40
And transhumanism, I've made this argument a lot, people are very put off by it, but transhumanism begins with a desire for freedom, freedom from biological constraints or cultural constraints, using science and technology to break free, and either to liberate the individual's will or liberate the will of some small group of elites who can in some way transcend the human condition.
Loren PiretraHOST
14:55
And you cover really the, you cover a lot of the crimes that are being committed by police officers and cops.
Loren PiretraHOST
15:03
Like, are there things that you want to kind of talk more about that are top of mind with like what people don't really know about what's going on with the flock cameras and mass surveillance? I know it's a big conversation.
Loren PiretraHOST
15:15
I live in LA and, And we just had some big city council races.
Loren PiretraHOST
15:21
And we had this woman who won, who's the incumbent, who really wants to add surveillance everywhere.

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speaker_7SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
26:04
Whenever they want to take away our freedoms, it's always about for our safety.
speaker_7SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
26:08
And this technology extends far beyond license plate readers at this point.
speaker_7SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
26:13
Fox safety is putting up cameras in parks on trails and playgrounds and these are AI cameras that track people no longer just license plate readers this is about the mass surveillance Network being established in America and nobody is falling for it if we look at the comments here they will always use safety as an excuse when they want to infringe on your privacy rip them down never give up Liberty for the sake of safety Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin
Loren PiretraHOST
26:39
I love a Ben Franklin
John WiselyCORRESPONDENT
2:45
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib held a press conference in Inkster beside one of the cameras.
John WiselyCORRESPONDENT
2:51
She was there to announce a bill she's introduced in Congress that would deny federal funding to communities that use what she calls mass surveillance technology, like Flock.
John WiselyCORRESPONDENT
3:02
For now, the cameras and the controversies that follow them aren't going away.
John WiselyCORRESPONDENT
3:06
To read more about it, please visit freep.com.
Manuela ColiniGUEST
26:08
It's in the best interest of the citizens and for their safety.
Manuela ColiniGUEST
26:11
Like we have, for example, nowadays, we have the mass surveillance systems like Flock and Axon.
Manuela ColiniGUEST
26:18
They say that, oh, they're going to solve crimes.
Manuela ColiniGUEST
26:22
But in reality, I think that they're only creating patterns of life for us.
Manuela ColiniGUEST
26:28
It's mass surveillance, but it's just dressed up as, oh, it's for
Jenny Beth MartinHOST
26:33
your own good.
Jenny Beth MartinHOST
26:33
In the Soviet Union and Romania, where there's secret police and informers everywhere, if they had had the ability to track, like they can happen on our phone today, or the flock camera technology, It had to be the thing of those their dreams.
Manuela ColiniGUEST
27:59
And we've had flock and acts on cameras for a while now.

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