# Tue Episode #2306:  — When Government and Corporations Become One

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Podcast: [The David Knight Show](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show-1060966)
Published: 2026-07-14T19:21:03+00:00
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## Resource

──────────────────────────────────────── [00:02:58] Telegram Founder Durov: EU's "Child Safety" Surveillance Law Is Classic Banana Republic Tactics Arrested in France for running a free speech platform, Durov warns the EU's chat control law allows warrantless snooping on millions of conversations; every tyrannical act is sold as protecting children. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:07:18] LAPD Let Its Flock Contract Expire — Flock Secretly Shared Local Camera Data With Federal Agencies Flock ran an unauthorized data-sharing pilot without local consent; Mountain View, Santa Cruz, and Hillsborough have also walked away. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:15:22] Cato and Reason Said Big Tech Censorship Was Fine Because "Private Companies Can Do Whatever They Want" When government uses tech companies as its enforcement arm, it's fascism — the literal merger of corporate and government power. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:23:03] Ron Paul: Trump Purchased Partial Ownership of ~30 Companies Using $27 Billion in Taxpayer Money Government picking winners distorts capital markets and enriches the Trump family; Knight calls it communist fascism. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:26:42] Trump's 1990 Playboy Interview: He Praised the Tiananmen Square Massacre as "Showing the Power of Strength" China "almost blew it" but recovered by killing everybody — a good thing, he said; the authoritarian heart of the man building America's surveillance state. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:51:33] Dr. James Miller: Hospitals Were "Killing Fields" — Unvaccinated Patients Treated as Dirty Plague Rats Corporate systems denied standard care to the unvaccinated; the 20% CMS bonus for COVID patients created a financial incentive to classif…

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