Jordan Peterson Warns of ‘Surveillance State’ at Congressional Hearing on Government Collusion With Banks

Psychologist and author Jordan Peterson warned members of the U.S. Congress that the collusion of governments with banks, along with emerging technologies like digital identity systems and central bank digital currencies, could turn countries into totalitarian surveillance states. The combination of governments and technologies “can and will facilitate the development of a surveillance state, the scope of which optimistic pessimists of totalitarianism such as George Orwell could scarcely imagine,” Mr. Peterson said on Capitol Hill on March 7. Mr. Peterson made the comments in front of the House Judiciary Committee’s Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Committee chair and Republican Jim Jordan announced in January that the committee had obtained documents showing the U.S. government flagged bank transactions that used terms associated with former President Donald Trump....