Amazon's Ring commercial is a deceptive tactic that utilizes emotional imagery to gain public acceptance for a broader surveillance apparatus.

“You know, at first you're like, "Yay!" Um, they're using a little kid and her dog to make us welcome in the surveillance state. Basically, that's what they're doing.”

Advanced technologies and corporate backdoors allow the state to perform mass surveillance and generate fraudulent evidence to label individuals as threats.

“a lot of the surveillance systems and a lot of the internet that we all use internationally is run by American corporations that have back doors to American state surveillance agencies. So, it doesn't take much for them to track whatever the [ __ ] they want to track”

The surveillance state and its technological infrastructure are inherently dystopian and serve as a tool for power that compromises individual autonomy.

“I'm really against the surveillance state. I really think that is super dystopian. And he's made I'm sure billions of dollars off war you know on all the wars plus the surveillance state here and around the world.”

The current surveillance state practices, including forcing people to unlock their phones at borders, are unconstitutional.

“I think it's unconstitutional that they believe that it's perfectly acceptable to tell people, I'm going to open your phone and start searching through it. But they've done that.”

Government surveillance tools like Pegasus are used to monitor and track political dissidents and members of Congress.

“I realized that they had hacked into my iCloud account, my computer, and my phone with Pegasus.”