Saturday, June 6, 2026

“They Warned Me: We’re Next” – Chilling Parallels Between Dictatorships and the West

Privacy advocate Naomi Brockwell returns from two weeks in Europe at the Oslo Freedom Forum, sharing eye-opening conversations with activists from some of the world's most oppressive regimes who are fighting for freedom under constant threat of jail. She highlights chilling parallels to the West—surveillance creep, digital ID mandates, engineered compliance, propaganda, and the erosion of private communication, transactions, and movement—using stories like a woman from Togo raised under military rule and the Titanic analogy of ignoring warning signs until it's too late. Brockwell urges viewers to recognize these red flags now, build privacy tools, and push back before self-correcting mechanisms like whistleblowing and free speech are lost forever.