Really does show that they know they can only succeed in the "mostly" dark, and that the moment they are drug into the light their entire industry unravels.
Because it would have been super easy to pivot into "YEAH AND WE ARE PROUD OF IT" to getting your list of clients out like this. But they didn't do that because they know it was just an extortion racket for all to see and nobody truly supported them. They knew it, the companies using them knew it, and their government funding knew it.
So now they desperately need to shout "racist, sexist, phobic" long enough for it to be "why are you still talking about that?" news as they rebrand it under a new name.
Really does show that they know they can only succeed in the "mostly" dark, and that the moment they are drug into the light their entire industry unravels.
Because it would have been super easy to pivot into "YEAH AND WE ARE PROUD OF IT" to getting your list of clients out like this. But they didn't do that because they know it was just an extortion racket for all to see and nobody truly supported them. They knew it, the companies using them knew it, and their government funding knew it.
So now they desperately need to shout "racist, sexist, phobic" long enough for it to be "why are you still talking about that?" news as they rebrand it under a new name.
That's a BRIDGE too far.