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He laments that many people don’t realize how deeply entrenched this system is, noting companies like Visa’s Plaid as intermediary back-ends that scrape bank data, allowing extensive monitoring and profiling—further eroding privacy.
The Corporate Control and Cultural Impacts
A recurring concern is how large corporations leverage data and influence to sway culture, politics, and even regulation. The speaker criticizes "cancel culture," social media censorship, and how digital platforms prioritize sensationalism and outrage—sometimes deliberately—limit discussions, and silence dissenters.