Data centers, surveillance cameras... Bret Weinstein asks "what is this all really for?"
July 16, 2026
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as posted by the channel"If you look at the push towards tokenization of assets, towards central bank digital currencies—that is programmable money that can be turned off if you displease the powers that be.
If you look at the creation of these massive data centers, is that really about citizen use of AI?
Maybe some of it is, but is it really about creating a storehouse of information that will allow you to be controlled and locked down?
That’s certainly the impression I have. We didn’t have a discussion about any of this. This is happening, and then we have to react to it because it’s all on a freight train headed down the line… and we’re always playing defense. So it’s pretty frightening stuff.
And at some level, we have a moral right to object. We’re not being given the opportunity to object..."
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