The point I was trying to make was that privacy has become an arms race.

We didn't have guaranteed privacy before the Internet, but we had checks and balances. If the authorities had good cause to suspect you of being a criminal they had the laborious task of applying to the courts for permission to access your bank records and tap your phone line.

What the video shows now, with privacy tools such as Tor (and NOSTR), we have removed the ability for the state to conduct mass surveillance, at least for those that engage with privacy tools.

It is still possible to surveil an individual, but it requires enormous effort and resources which forces the state to focus on a few individuals of "significant interest".