Sergey Brin | All-In Summit 2024 (youtube.com)
Do Google's owners/main controllers even know what's going on with technology development? Read the comments.
More complaints about scams taking place on Facebook and Insta, links to Whatsapp. They know everything about you, and these people are not sophisticated.
Telegram preferred by Russian military for its encryption, Zeihan said (although this is one of the subjects he's most accused of shilling in). Again, we could highlight the value to people everywhere for governments to be in a state of non-cooperation and competition. Russia protects Telegram to some degree because it is the alternative to US-information-sending monopoly.
I don't understand, though, how someone as smart as Zeihan cannot see that society cannot improve and always becomes weaker and worse to the degree government invades or negates the privacy of its citizens? I've met a lot of people who don't understand this, but I've met very few really smart people who don't understand this. I've also met very few smart people who don't voice the understanding of how governments use two hot topics, terrorism and CPP (the second P is for ‘propaganda’), to frame any issue they don't want disagreement on, just as Zeihan does himself here Telegram and the Limits of Freedom of Speech on Social Media (Part II) || Peter Zeihan (youtube.com) .