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Hacker Kim Dotcom Issues Dark Warning on Surveillance, Electronic Voting Machines, and Nuclear War
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Mass Surveillance: How Governments Profile Their Own Citizens
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Tucker Carlson's first question cuts to the chase: how much privacy do citizens actually have? Kim Dotcom's answer is unsparing — not much, because government surveillance programs are designed to catch everything. Every phone call, every video call, every online action is swept up into a vast system that builds granular profiles of entire populations [1] — Kim Dotcom "The only way to have privacy is to disconnect from the internet entirely. Every website, every tool, every piece of hardware you use is con…" 00:45 . But Dotcom goes further than simple data collection: these profiles are used for mind-altering influence operations, particularly around elections. Governments can, he argues, use the system to manufacture support for war or shape public opinion at scale, with the same precision that Facebook uses to sell products [2] — Kim Dotcom "Every website that you visit, every tool that you use, every hardware that you use is controlled by the US government." 03:10 . Tucker asks how a person gets out of this panopticon, and Dotcom's answer is brutal in its simplicity: don't be connected to the internet. It is the only way. He explains that every website, tool, and piece of hardware you use is ultimately controlled by the US government, making a genuinely private encrypted device legally impossible in America — any company that tried to build one would receive a government letter demanding a backdoor, and refusal means prison.
The only way to have privacy is to disconnect from the internet entirely. Every website, every tool, every piece of hardware you use is controlled or monitored by the US government — and that's not paranoia, it's the architecture.
Kim Dotcom's legal nightmare had nothing to do with copyright infringement. He donated to WikiLeaks and Julian Assange — and the US government charged him under RICO statutes, seeking 186 years in prison as payback.
US prosecutors sought a 186-year prison sentence for Kim Dotcom, largely because of his financial support for WikiLeaks.
