Subjects/subject
surveillance
2020-04-12, 1 mention2020-04-19, 1 mention2020-06-21, 1 mention2020-11-15, 1 mention2022-01-04, 1 mention2022-01-11, 1 mention2023-04-23, 1 mention2023-05-21, 1 mention2025-07-22, 1 mention2025-09-20, 1 mention2025-11-08, 1 mention2026-06-20, 1 mention2026-07-11, 1 mention
Tim’s take
He treats surveillance as the mechanism by which a tech-oligarch class locks in control, showing up across fights over AI policy, the WEF's "you'll own nothing" future, Palantir, and post-BLM policing 1:11:07 1:03:30 28:27 22:05 1:14:12. The specifics shift — cashless society, robot cops, biometric crypto, no car or home ownership — but the argument stays the same: a manufactured crisis is the excuse, and the grid itself is the product 41:07 47:10 18:48. In the ExpressVPN ad he treats surveillance as a genuine, sellable problem from corporations as much as governments 44:24, and with Lex he agrees China's surveillance ambitions are a legitimate human-rights worry 1:02:26. Elsewhere he dismisses the entire debate as "fake," a staged distraction from what tech oligarchs are actually doing 1:26:54, and mocks the Gates Foundation ad-read crowd for only just discovering they care about privacy 36:29.
Every Reference (13)
"fire they literally dance I mean that's the big what is this surveillance where you know listen I'm not saying you should have been concerned"
Bill and Melinda Gates Ad Turns Into a Surveillance/Conspiracy Rant — #195 - Take Me To The Moon | The Tim Dillon Show+54s into the segment"the way to do that is to remake American society so that we adopt a Chinese style like surveillance state but worse than what China has"
The Leaked AI Commission Document: Copying China's Surveillance State — #196 - Whitney Webb | The Tim Dillon Show+35s into the segment"were in before and in police state that where you have massive surveillance technology big tech you know will the police be just new police"
Skepticism of Corporate-Backed BLM Support — #205 - Well, LA Was Fun | The Tim Dillon Show+62s into the segment"a lot of that has to do with the implementation of these orwellian surveillance technologies which by the way uh the national security state tried to implement a lot of this after 9 11"
The World Economic Forum's "You'll Own Nothing" 2030 Article — #226 - Whitney Webb #3 | The Tim Dillon Show+270s into the segment"there's obviously a lot of aspects of uh surveillance state that they're trying to create that are really worrying about human rights"
AI Autonomous Weapons and Understanding China on Its Own Terms — #282 - Lex Fridman | The Tim Dillon Show+339s into the segment"want people to all be on the grid in a major way. They want surveillance, you know, cradle to grave, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week."
Corporate Land Grabs and 'You'll Own Nothing' — #283 - Joe Rogan | The Tim Dillon Show+91s into the segment"right everybody's just everybody's worried about uh government surveillance and that's only a part of surveillance apparently right so"
Small Talk: Colin's New Show About Surveillance Culture and Snitching — Small Talk with Colin Quinn | The Tim Dillon Show #343+43s into the segment"people are becoming more aware of how they're surveilled not only by the governments but by uh different you know companies marketing agencies stealing your data harvesting your data selling it"
"our country into a digital police state or a Chinese style surveillance state. And I think a lot of those people would probably want"
Palantir, Peter Thiel, and the Already-Existing Surveillance Grid — Emergency Podcast: The Epstein Cover-Up | The Tim Dillon Show #454+324s into the segment"the draconian surveillance and police state comes in. They don't have an interest in people having a yard. They don't want you outside. They don't want you outside."
A General Malaise and Oligarchs Deciding Your Fate — Cancelling Kimmel, Fired From Riyadh, & The Prison Housing Market | The Tim Dillon Show #462+213s into the segment"it, and then build it back our way? How do we usher in a surveillance state that's more draconian even than the one we have now? How"
Cash Patel's Girlfriend and the Tech Aristocracy Plan — Zohran’s Victory, Air Traffic Chaos, & Government Shutdown | The Tim Dillon Show #469+60s into the segment"And anyone that doesn't like it or anyone who questions it and all of this stuff about surveillance and all that they're worried about surveil- I'm worried about surveil- This is all fake."
The Real Reason Behind UK's Phone Ban for Kids — Iran’s Baddie Era & The Data Center Destiny | The Tim Dillon Show #500+24s into the segment"if I was if I owned a tech company that specialized in surveillance or something like that? Let me tell you what I would be doing right now. Salivating."
Palantir Robot Spiders Will Police Newport Beach — Teen Takeovers & Netanyahu’s New Nightmare | The Tim Dillon Show #503+233s into the segment