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to bring it back to a question you asked earlier on about Israel and blackmail,

they don't really need blackmail anymore. And I argue at the end of my book that Palantir,

Peter Thiel's company, really makes it so that, I mean, that's the new Jeffrey Epstein

at the end of the day. If they want to blackmail you or know something about you,

they just access what Palantir sucked up about you and your search history, your communications,

your finances, tweets you've liked in the past, all sorts of things. You don't really need Epstein

in the surveillance era, you know? Do you think when they said tweets are private,

it was just an inducement to get us all to like what we really want to like so they can

hold it against us later? It's possible if they want to hold it against you later.

The disturbing thing about Palantir is that it's really about pre-crime.

They were the pioneers of predictive policing.

You know, they were originally, well, almost everywhere they piloted predictive policing

had been low-income minority neighborhoods where they decide who's going to commit a

crime before they commit it. And that's essentially what the-

You know, we'll see. Administrative detention, maybe, if we go the Israeli path.

But Trump actually, in his first term, posited this program to stop mass shootings before they

happened that would basically involve going over American social media posts and identifying if

they had early warning signs of neuropsychiatric illness based on their, you know, tweets or

Facebook posts. And if they were determined by the algorithm to show those warning signs,

they could be, you know, placed under house arrest or go to sessions with a court-ordered

psychologist and all sorts of things. Well, some of my extended relatives better

be careful because they got some wild Facebook posts. I had to leave the app.

Probably a lot of Americans. And it's worth pointing out that a lot of social media companies

like Facebook have a lot of ties to Peter Thiel at the same time he was setting up Palantir.

And that Facebook has a lot of similarities to a failed DARPA project called LifeLog

that arguably Facebook was resurrected into because Palantir is the resurrection of another

DARPA program called Total Information Awareness that was so scandalous when it was announced it

was defunded by Congress. But then they realized that if they turned it into a private company,

no one would complain. And that's how we got Palantir.