Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Russell's guest argues that the pandemic offered a rare, revealing window into just how far governments are willing to go to manipulate, control, and spy on their own citizens. They point out that lockdowns, worship bans, and mandatory vaccinations were obeyed at a level normally associated with centralized systems like China's social credit regime, proving democratic nations could achieve the same result without ever needing that system. Behind the scenes, tech companies spent heavily to suppress dissenting voices online, while a military psyops unit typically used only in occupied territories was reportedly active in shaping domestic messaging, made legal through an alliance of allied nations spying on each other's citizens instead of their own. A sobering look at the machinery of control the pandemic quietly exposed.
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Russell's guest argues that the pandemic offered a rare, revealing window into just how far governments are willing to go to manipulate, control, and spy on their own citizens. They point out that lockdowns, worship bans, and mandatory vaccinations were obeyed at a level normally associated with centralized systems like China's social credit regime, proving democratic nations could achieve the same result without ever needing that system. Behind the scenes, tech companies spent heavily to suppress dissenting voices online, while a military psyops unit typically used only in occupied territories was reportedly active in shaping domestic messaging, made legal through an alliance of allied nations spying on each other's citizens instead of their own. A sobering look at the machinery of control the pandemic quietly exposed.
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