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Written By B.J. Dichter, Posted on June 25, 2025
In an era where digital privacy feels increasingly out of reach, millions turn to VPNs as their first line of defence, trusting them to encrypt activity, bypass censorship and shield against surveillance. Whether you’re a dissident in Tehran, a journalist in Hong Kong, or simply someone trying to access Netflix abroad, VPNs are marketed as impenetrable vaults of anonymity. However, what if the very tools we rely on to stay invisible online are quietly collecting, selling, or even weaponizing our data or even distributing them to your adversaries?
As VPN ownership consolidates behind a handful of opaque corporations and foreign-linked entities, the question isn’t just how secure VPNs are, but who might be watching behind the encryption.
A VPN (Virtual Private Network) is a secure digital tunnel that encrypts your internet connection and routes it through servers in different geographic locations, masking your IP address and shielding your online activity from surveillance or censorship. Common use cases include protecting sensitive data on public Wi-Fi, accessing region-restricted content, and maintaining privacy from corporate tracking or government monitoring. For individuals living under authoritarian regimes like China, Iran, or even Canada since the beginning of the Trudeau era, VPNs are often essential tools for bypassing internet firewalls, accessing blocked websites and social media platforms, and communicating securely without fear of state surveillance or retaliation.
The allure of free VPNs is strong, especially for mobile users connecting to public Wi-Fi. However, these services often come with a hidden cost: your data. Apps like Betternet and Hola VPN have allegedly been exposed for data harvesting, ad injection, and even selling user bandwidth to third parties. One VPN turned out to be a peer-to-peer network, meaning other users could effectively “cloak” their activity through your IP address an alarming risk for anyone concerned with legality and liability.
This begs the question: what really happens to the data routed through these “free” VPN services?
Is it logged? Sold? Shared with governments? Or possibly analysed and stored for future use? Are there risks we are not considering?
Interestingly, many of the sources of these amplified digital hoaxes seem to overlap almost precisely with the regions that have been consolidating VPN services. Could your VPN data, now being scraped, be used by foreign-controlled services or adversaries to help deploy and target online bots used to manipulate and influence users?
For instance, what if VPN companies with access to millions of users’ browsing habits, political engagements, and keyword searches, had backend agreements (formal or informal) with data analytics firms or intelligence-linked entities? Could VPN metadata be used to train AI bots for narrative warfare, or merely to select from a list of canned responses? Could this help explain how some bot farms so precisely insert themselves into specific trending political topics within minutes?
While this remains informed speculation, the architecture is plausible, and there appears to be a regularly occurring correlation with online behaviour and IP data traffic patterns.
1. VPN collects data.
2. Data is analyzed or sold.
3. Data informs bot, click farm or AI-based engagement engines.
Would we even know if it were happening?
The VPN industry is in the middle of a quiet consolidation war. In recent years:
These moves raise the question of how many real choices consumers have and how many of those choices are just the same company behind different logos.
When one company owns both the VPN and the site that “independently” reviews it, what kind of privacy, neutrality, or accuracy should we expect?
Here are some examples of popular VPN companies in regions of concern.
Company: Gaditek
Headquarters: Karachi, Pakistan
VPNs Owned / Controlled:
VPN Owned / Controlled:
VPNs Owned / Controlled:
Apps Owned: A collection includes 5 VPN apps under the “Hotspot VPN” brand umbrella. They typically follow naming patterns like Hotspot VPN and related variants dedicated to Android and iOS platforms.
Many in the West have long recognised that the primary weapon of their adversaries is political entryism and division. The strategy is straightforward: sow irreconcilable emotional divisions within Western society to weaken it from within. What more target-rich environment could there be than large groups of hyper-emotional people, like universities? Young people struggle to get their lives off the ground and make sense of the world. Now you know why we have protests in universities across the West.
In the ancient world, the divisions between empires, particularly the Byzantine Romans and the Persian Empire, exhausted both powers, creating a vacuum that allowed Islam to flourish.
This same strategy is employed today, revived in the modern era by the founders of the Muslim Brotherhood and its proxies, including Hasan al-Banna, Sayyid Qutb, and Abul A’la Maududi. I refer to them as the “three amigos,” just because they are ridiculous. Their strategic and philosophical frameworks, revealed in court documents from the Holy Land Foundation terrorism trial in the 1990s, are responsible for much of the chaos in the West.
The primary scapegoat tool in the West is Jewish communities, often seen as an easy source of division within Western culture. Consequently, Western governments, intelligence services, and law enforcement monitor the growth of antisemitism as an indicator and warning of heightened Islamist activity, especially when it is propagated by unwitting accomplices. It is no surprise, then, that governments track absurd conspiracy theories and foreign-funded accounts, such as the one referenced below from June 22nd, 2025.
For several years, Pakistani Islamists with ties to the ISI (Pakistan’s Islamist extremist intelligence agency) have been using Twitter/X spaces and accounts to radicalize naive and frustrated Westerners. Combine this with VPN traffic routed through Pakistan and China, along with the proliferation of extremist bots on social media platforms, and the predictable result is the type of conversations featured below.
This isn’t about making accusations or drawing definitive conclusions. It’s about asking better questions. Are VPNs being used to scrape user data to identify the most gullible users on social media? Who can be persuaded into adopting completely ridiculous worldviews?
Is this what leads to constant online harassment from accounts often linked to jurisdictions adversarial to the West, places like Pakistan and China? The former is well known for harbouring many online activists who regularly host spaces distributing verifiably false propaganda in an effort to brainwash Westerners into believing complete and utter nonsense about geopolitics.
In a recent exchange, an X account using the name Red Pill America was found to be registered to a Pakistani national with an IP address located in Pakistan. It is one of countless examples of anonymous online accounts using American patriotism as a tool of political entryism to persuade and manipulate naive minds in the West.
We live in an age where digital manipulation and brainwashing have become effective and tactical weapons used in geopolitics to move public opinion in favour of authoritarian adversaries who dream of the day they can destroy the West and free market dominance. If VPNs are supposed to be our shield, we need to ask: who might be watching from behind it, and where does that data go?
Relevant Links
https://vpnpro.com/blog/hidden-vpn-owners-unveiled-97-vpns-23-companies/#3-act-mobile-networks-6-total-vpn-products
Author Honking For Freedom, Podcaster, Speaker, Trucker #FreedomConvoy Spokesperson. #Bitcoin http://HonkingForFreedom.com | http://BenjaminJDichter.com
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