{"podcast":{"title":"Naomi Brockwell on Odysee","slug":"naomi-brockwell-on-odysee-6038470","podcast_index_feed_id":6038470,"rss_url":"https://odysee.com/$/rss/@NaomiBrockwell:4","website_url":"naomibrockwell.com","image_url":"https://spee.ch/0/52b6f45476a3be48.jpg","author":"Naomi Brockwell","episode_count":50,"summary":"NBTV: a privacy, technology, blockchain channel - Control your own money - Control your own data - Control your own life Naomi Brockwell worked as a policy associate at the New York Bitcoin Center from 2013 - 2015. Since 2015 she has been a producer for 19-times Emmy-Award-Winning Journalist John Stossel. She is a regular of US national TV discussing blockchain technology & current events, & emcees some of the biggest blockchain conferences. Naomi was a producer for the 2015 feature documentary \"Bitcoin: The End of Money as We Know It\" (Best International Documentary, Anthem Film Festival; Winner of Special Jury Prize, Amsterdam Film Festival), & for the 2018 award-winning documentary about the housing crash \"The Bubble\" https://nbtv.media","last_synced_at":"2026-06-20T06:18:15.041254+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/naomi-brockwell-on-odysee-6038470"},"episode":{"title":"I met activists on the front lines","slug":"i-met-activists-on-the-front-lines","published_at":"2026-06-06T01:00:56+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/naomi-brockwell-on-odysee-6038470/i-met-activists-on-the-front-lines","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/naomi-brockwell-on-odysee-6038470","url":"https://odysee.com/Red-Flags-From-Dictatorships:e1febe0684e4bf76bb97d0646ba253551e41af15","audio_url":"https://odysee.com/$/rss/media/Red-Flags-From-Dictatorships/e1febe0684e4bf76bb97d0646ba253551e41af15/f1f523.mp4","summary":"I just got back from 2 weeks in Europe meeting with activists from some of the world's most oppressive regimes, who are fighting for freedom. What I heard there shook me. When you talk to people who have lived under dictatorship, you start to notice uncomfortable parallels to what's happening in the West right now. The surveillance creep. The ID mandates. The slow erosion of the right to communicate, transact, and move through the world privately. These are red flags that those under tyranny wish someone had pointed out to them sooner. 0:00 – Pay Attention to the Warning Signs 0:45 – Growing Up Under Military Rule 1:21 – "What Propaganda Am I Not Seeing?" 1:33 – The Titanic Analogy 2:51 – Dictatorship Is Engineered Compliance 3:42 – How the Internet Became a Tool of Control 5:44 – The Surveillance State Is the Red Flag 6:59 – If Someone Wants Power, They Now Have the Tools 7:09 – Jailed for Donating to the Resistance 7:33 – "It's for the Children" — Recognizing the Propaganda 8:24 – We Can Still Fight Back. But Not for Much Longer. 9:57 – Dictatorship Can Be Dismantled There's an analogy to be found with the sinking of the Titanic: No one believed the Titanic could sink, so they for a long time refused to get into lifeboats until it was too late. Boats left half empty. We still have time to get in the lifeboats. But not much. NBTV is a project of the Ludlow Institute, a 501c3 non profit whose mission is to advance freedom through technology. To support NBTV, visit: https://LudlowInstitute.org/donate (As a 501(c)(3) non profit, all donations are tax-deductible in the USA as permitted by law.) Visit our shop! https://Shop.NBTV.media Our eBook "Beginner's Introduction To Privacy: https://amzn.to/3WDSfku Beware of scammers,…","meta_description":"I just got back from 2 weeks in Europe meeting with activists from some of the world's most oppressive regimes, who are fighting for freedom. What I…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":619,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/naomi-brockwell-on-odysee-6038470/episodes/i-met-activists-on-the-front-lines/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/naomi-brockwell-on-odysee-6038470/i-met-activists-on-the-front-lines.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}