Interview · moment 17 of 18
Las Vegas Shooting Suspicions and Smart Speaker Surveillance
from I Am The One Who Dox · #134
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4 minGuest
The guest voices suspicion about the FBI's inability to find a motive in the Las Vegas shooting, jokes about Kenny Chesney concerts justifying violence, and they discuss how devices like Amazon Echo normalize surveillance in exchange for convenience.
- 1:14:12FBI investigated the Las Vegas shooting and found no motive, yet the hotel room was set up like a Bourne movie.
- 1:14:53Tim tends to be a worst-case scenario guy when thinking about social media and intelligence monitoring.
- 1:15:04A Kenny Chesney concert outside his hotel room would have driven him to violence if he'd had weapons.
- 1:15:27Technology like Amazon Echo is being used against us, and we're volunteering for surveillance because the gadgets do cool shit.
- 1:16:14Companies know what you're buying on the internet and they listen to you through these devices.
- 1:16:29Most discussions of surveillance are either politically drenched or filled with provably false conspiracy theories like dark web torture rooms.
- 1:17:08You cannot live a normal life without submitting to technology—no social media presence means being pretty much done.
- 1:17:33This technology is used to monitor, listen to, and impact what you think and believe.
- 1:17:56Modern infrastructure like restaurants no longer accepts phone calls and demands email—disconnecting is practically impossible.
- 1:18:17Convenience comes at the cost of freedoms people didn't even realize they had, and now they're gone forever.
Stephen PaddockAmazon EchoLas Vegas shootingtechnology and surveillancesocial media surveillance