Cause they don’t care about winning. They just want to uphold the interest of capital.

Not individual people, really. It’s the capital owning class, that tries to push bigotry to protect their own power.

Mainly the first part, especially the "You’ve made some excellent point highlighting… " just sounds very off to me.

I guess, I was wrong, sorry

You are either AI or talk like you are

It seems like you didn’t fully read my post

Nah, people were always spied on. The internet actually made it possible (if you know what you are doing) to communicate safely under authoritarian regimes or if you are under investigation by the government, even across borders.

That was not really feasible in the Soviet Union etc.