American tech giants are building a surveillance apparatus that threatens our basic freedoms, all while pledging allegiance to foreign interests. Harrison Berger, a brilliant researcher and writer whose work appears in The American Conservative and Responsible Statecraft, pulls back the curtain on how companies like Palantir and Oracle have become extensions of intelligence agencies with troubling loyalty to Israel.
Palantir isn't the libertarian-minded alternative to Big Tech that its founders claim. Born from a CIA program deemed too unconstitutional for government use, it now operates as privatized surveillance with billions in taxpayer funding. Despite marketing themselves as anti-establishment, Palantir executives function as part of the Israel lobby inside the US, with Peter Thiel openly stating his "preference is to defer to Israel" when questioned about the company's AI targeting tools being used in Gaza's bombing campaigns.
Oracle demonstrates similar concerning allegiances. Its CEO explicitly tells employees: "If you are not for America or Israel, don't work here." Larry Ellison, the second-largest private donor to Israel, is simultaneously gobbling up media companies including Warner Brothers, Discovery, HBO, and CNN while collaborating with Israeli intelligence to target Americans who support boycotts against Israel.
The control of information flows is central to this power structure. After October 7th, social media platforms faced intense pressure to censor pro-Palestinian content. TikTok became a particular target when it allowed content explaining the motivations behind anti-American terrorism as tied to US support for Israel. Now, Oracle and other Zionist-aligned investors control TikTok, with Israeli military intelligence officials directly involved in content moderation.
Most troubling is how this surveillance infrastructure could be weaponized against American citizens. Recent statements from Attorney General Pam Bondi suggesting that "hate speech" falls outside First Amendment protections signal a willingness to criminalize political speech under the guise of fighting extremism.
As Harrison Berger eloquently explains, the exploitation of Charlie Kirk's assassination to justify crackdowns on constitutionally protected speech represents a dangerous moment for American liberty. The greatest threats to our freedoms aren't foreign terrorists, but domestic surveillance architects who hate Americans for exercising their constitutional rights to criticize government policy.
Chapters:
0:00 Introducing Harrison Berger
5:42 Palantir: The CIA in Private Sector
9:06 Israel Ties and Surveillance Infrastructure
14:27 Controlling Information and Censorship
21:36 Oracle, Ellison, and Israeli Intelligence
26:45 Free Speech Under Threat After Charlie Kirk's Death
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