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Ohio put your face in a database in 2013 and never told you.

Every driver's license photo. Enrolled in facial recognition. No public hearing. No disclosure. 30,000 cops and court employees have access.

But facial recognition was just the foundation. Here is the full surveillance architecture Ohio has deployed with zero regulation:

1/ TALEN: AI fusion platform merging body cams, dash cams, public cameras, private security cameras, social media feeds, ShotSpotter gunshot detection, and license plate readers into a single surveillance system. Rollout planned for 1,000 law enforcement agencies. 35,000 end users.

2/ AG Dave Yost signed a Clearview AI contract. Billions of scraped photos, now state-sanctioned.

3/ Safeguard Ohio: America's first AI suspicious activity system. Citizens upload video, audio, photos. An AI chatbot conducts the intake interview. Everything routes to the Statewide Terrorism Analysis and Crime Center.

4/ Flock Safety license plate readers across 24+ communities and 37 state highway patrol units. Cross-jurisdiction shared database. Deployed at schools.

5/ Autonomous drone fleets. Columbus PD RAVEN launches drones from patrol cars. Ohio State University launches drones from rooftops. Hamilton County fields 16 drones.

6/ Anduril Arsenal-1: a $1 billion, 5 million square foot autonomous weapons factory near Columbus producing AI-powered drones at industrial scale. None of this is regulated by state law. Not one piece of it.

Now follow the money.

Peter Thiel built Palantir into the world's dominant surveillance data company. He funded JD Vance's Senate campaign. Vance sat on the InnovateOhio board advocating mandatory digital IDs for all Ohioans.

Vivek Ramaswamy is running for Ohio governor. His backers: Thiel, Vance, Joe Lonsdale, Howard Lutnick. Leslie Wexner, Jeffrey Epstein's primary financial patron, constructed New Albany, Ohio as a private technocratic enclave built on tax incentives.

JobsOhio operates as a private corporation with $1.4 billion in taxpayer funds and no public transparency requirements.

The architecture scales in one direction: local capture (New Albany tax deals), state capture (JobsOhio, InnovateOhio), federal capture (Vance as VP, DOGE), international export.

Ohio is not an outlier. Ohio is the template for every state in America.

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For what it is worth Grok says these claims are true.

No, nothing in the post is demonstrably false based on available public records and reporting. Most claims align with documented facts, though some involve interpretive framing

Ohio put your face in a database in 2013 and never told you. Every driver's license photo. Enrolled in facial recognition. No public hearing. No disclosure. 30,000 cops and court employees have access. But facial recognition was just the foundation. Here is the full surveillance architecture Ohio has deployed with zero regulation: 1/ TALEN: AI fusion platform merging body cams, dash cams, public cameras, private security cameras, social media feeds, ShotSpotter gunshot detection, and license plate readers into a single surveillance system. Rollout planned for 1,000 law enforcement agencies. 35,000 end users. 2/ AG Dave Yost signed a Clearview AI contract. Billions of scraped photos, now state-sanctioned. 3/ Safeguard Ohio: America's first AI suspicious activity system. Citizens upload video, audio, photos. An AI chatbot conducts the intake interview. Everything routes to the Statewide Terrorism Analysis and Crime Center. 4/ Flock Safety license plate readers across 24+ communities and 37 state highway patrol units. Cross-jurisdiction shared database. Deployed at schools. 5/ Autonomous drone fleets. Columbus PD RAVEN launches drones from patrol cars. Ohio State University launches drones from rooftops. Hamilton County fields 16 drones. 6/ Anduril Arsenal-1: a $1 billion, 5 million square foot autonomous weapons factory near Columbus producing AI-powered drones at industrial scale. None of this is regulated by state law. Not one piece of it. Now follow the money. Peter Thiel built Palantir into the world's dominant surveillance data company. He funded JD Vance's Senate campaign. Vance sat on the InnovateOhio board advocating mandatory digital IDs for all Ohioans. Vivek Ramaswamy is running for Ohio governor. His backers: Thiel, Vance, Joe Lonsdale, Howard Lutnick. Leslie Wexner, Jeffrey Epstein's primary financial patron, constructed New Albany, Ohio as a private technocratic enclave built on tax incentives. JobsOhio operates as a private corporation with $1.4 billion in taxpayer funds and no public transparency requirements. The architecture scales in one direction: local capture (New Albany tax deals), state capture (JobsOhio, InnovateOhio), federal capture (Vance as VP, DOGE), international export. Ohio is not an outlier. Ohio is the template for every state in America. [Credit](https://x.com/AaronRDay/status/2040038646288372203) For what it is worth Grok says these claims are true. >No, nothing in the post is demonstrably false based on available public records and reporting. Most claims align with documented facts, though some involve interpretive framing
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No one told you, but it was an open secret.

The United Emirates of Ohio has been sellingwhoring out your data for a long time. Even wonder where those scammy car warranty companies get your name, address, make, model, and year? Yep...right from the DMV. They don't care that it's actually never going to pay out anything and is for all intents and purposes a scam, they got their $0.05 for your data.

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It's always been that way. Ever get a traffic ticket and all the sudden a shitload of mailers for strip mall lawyers show up? Subscription to constant feed from the courthouse. Insurance companies get 24/7/365 access to your shit from the BMV. About 10 years ago the consulting company I worked from brought in a couple of low rent FBI agents to explain what they had for data integration and what they planned. I can tell you they are 20 years ahead of where they planned 10 years ago. And my fellow IT workers, regardless of race, are putting it all together for them for a measly $150k year on average. Half that if they are in shitskin land and 1/3 if in Eastern Europe.

The prisoners are building their own prison.

You're not a citizen anymore. You're a CONSUMER and depending on how you vote, a reliable or unreliable voter. How you "vote" isn't a factor yet on how you are treated as a person but soon it will be.

"Mr. Harsh, we noticed you voted Republican in the last 3 elections, when was your last political education seminar (ie struggle session)?". Or when they attach it to your credit score or interest rates for loans.

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GREETING CITIZEN 99388883829094858399919231

WE HAVE DETECTED THAT YOU BELIEVE YOU ARE BEING MONITORED. THIS IS FALSE. WE HAVE MONITORED YOUR COMMUNICATIONS AND MADE THE DETERMINATION THAT YOU ARE UNRECOVERABLE. YOU WILL BE TERMINATED. HAVE A NICE DAY.

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How does my citizen ID start with 99 septillion when there are only 7 billion people on the planet?

[–] • 3 pts

1984 was a warning not an instruction manual.

[–] • 2 pts

I wonder if the YouTube guy running for governor would have the balls to undo all this.

[–] • 0 pt

Not if he is allergic to unliveness.

[–] • 1 pt (edited )

Yep. If that asshole pulls off winning an election from a youtube channel I am trying it next to run for congress.

"HARSH 2028: It's time for a different kind of asshole".

"An asshole for the everyman"

"I won't take any corporate money and I'll tell the jew he's WRONG".

[–] • 0 pt

Not the asshole we want, the asshole we NEED.

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Not new and not just ohio. The template already existed. We sold the tech to the Chinese to test it. Now we are rolling it out here in the way that none will notice because if they did there would be daily mass riots.