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Aired On: 9/10/2026
BITCHUTE (Steve Bannon's War Room) - LIVE: The Right’s Great Tech Debate | Joe Allen vs. Joe Lonsdale
Joe Lonsdale - founder, investor, philanthropist vs Joe Allen - author, journalist, media commentator
BITCHUTE (Steve Bannon's War Room) - JOE ALLEN TO LONSDALE: YOU’RE INSULATED FROM BIG TECH’S MOST DAMAGING EFFECTS
JOE ALLEN: We need to really ask ourselves who benefits from total transformation. Joe Lonsdale, you clearly do. You’re insulated from the most damaging effects. The people I speak to are not insulated. They’re not insulated from mass surveillance or mass manipulation. Nor are they insulated from the more radical slop infestation of the culture, except for those who have the wherewithal to say no.
BITCHUTE (Steve Bannon's War Room) - JOE ALLEN: BIG TECH’S WAR ON WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN.
JOE ALLEN: Where are we at right now? We are basically human like our ancestors. You have lovers in the park holding hands. They’re kissing. They’re making love. They’re making babies. The babies grow up. They will hopefully become productive citizens. They will hopefully become spiritually whole. What you also have simultaneously is a rapidly evolving and recklessly deployed tech industry, which seeks to transform all of that.
BITCHUTE (Steve Bannon's War Room) - JOE ALLEN: FROM THE PATRIOT ACT TO PALANTIR, THE SURVEILLANCE STATE TURNED INWARD
JOE ALLEN: 9/11 happened, Patriot Act was signed, and the infrastructure built up for decades would be used not just against terrorists overseas, but dissenters on our soil. Fast forward to 2020: biosurveillance, contact tracing, and vaccination ops were facilitated by Palantir through their data analytics.
BITCHUTE (Steve Bannon's War Room) - JOE ALLEN: AI IS TAKING WARFARE OUT OF HUMAN HANDS
JOE ALLEN: Artificial intelligence, by way of @PalantirTech surveillance and data analytics coupled with AIs, is leading us to a place in which human beings are less and less involved in what is among the most important and sacred things that people do, which is to eliminate another human life. It may sound horrible to say that’s sacred, but I think anyone with any knowledge of history up to this point would say that warfare is in fact a sacred thing, and it’s being taken away from human beings.
BITCHUTE (Steve Bannon's War Room) - JOE ALLEN: BIG TECH CAN MONITOR YOU, MANIPULATE YOU AND ANNIHILATE YOU
ALLEN: This creeping suspicion, this fear of dystopia, comes not from leftist talking points. A corp can just as easily monitor you, manipulate you, and ultimately, if you fall out of line, either through the gov’t or through other means, such as cancellation, annihilate you.
BITCHUTE (Steve Bannon's War Room) - JOE ALLEN: MASS SURVEILLANCE ISN’T A LEFT-WING PSYOP. IT’S ABOUT POWER
LONSDALE questions whether the Right is falling for a psyop from the Left over mass surveillance. ALLEN: I reject the premise entirely. Anyone who is able to observe you all the time would have power over you, simply to understand you inside and out and be able to manipulate you. The utter disdain of having a human being take the place of God who is watching you all the time precedes any of these leftist talking points.
BITCHUTE (Steve Bannon's War Room) - JOE ALLEN: TRUMP’S AI ROBOT ARMY SHOWS A DYSTOPIAN FUTURE
JOE ALLEN: A few days ago, we saw President Trump in AI slop form, flanked by robot dogs and robot soldiers. The image of the future is aggressive. It’s dystopian. Maybe that’s pointed outward today. But the American people imagine, and I think quite rationally so, that these robot dogs and robot soldiers could one day be pointed towards us.
BITCHUTE (Steve Bannon's War Room) - JOE ALLEN TO LONSDALE: YOU’RE INSULATED FROM BIG TECH’S MOST DAMAGING EFFECTS
JOE ALLEN: We need to really ask ourselves who benefits from total transformation. Joe Lonsdale, you clearly do. You’re insulated from the most damaging effects. The people I speak to are not insulated. They’re not insulated from mass surveillance or mass manipulation. Nor are they insulated from the more radical slop infestation of the culture, except for those who have the wherewithal to say no.