It was never more obvious when the "censorship bad" of KIA1 was thrown out the window multiple times to try and kick T_D posters out.
Because being a Leftist was more important than any other principle, and why the "our one poll said we all are Lefties ackshually." And it will always be that way for anyone who is still on the Left.
Couldn't tell you, I got erased from reddit soon afterwards. It was right after Snap went nuts and banned half of the mods from TD. To this day I still think her account was taken over by a fed or something.
biggest example was Google. throughout 00s they were the giant yet friendly company who could do nothing wrong. they spearheaded the fight against SOPA, advanced free communications and internet search systems, and did a whole bunch of cool and random science projects.
of course, even back then they were manipulating search results to push climate hysteria, and possibly other things. all that boasting of free and open information was really to get people addicted to their ecosystem. All of their lobbying and campaigning was to assert their dominance over the US government.
The biggest opponent of allowing states to tax internet purchases was Amazon. They threatened to pull distribution center deals from states that oppose them, and poured money into state politics.
Once they had distribution centers in something like more than a third of the states, they began to have a competitive disadvantage against other internet retailers- those distribution centers meant that they had a physical Nexus in the state and Amazon purchases would be taxed under the current rules, but other internet retailers who only maintained one or two warehouses nationwide would still be largely exempt.
So they seamlessly pivoted into being one of the biggest advocates for an internet sales tax, to eliminate their competitors advantage. It was never about protecting their customers or doing what was right, it was about what generated the most profits for Amazon.
None of these supposed former champions of freedom on the left ever were anything of the sort. They were just trying to get a foot in the door.
It was surprising to be very loudly told to fuck off by one of the people who got the Halloween Papers out, one of the Deep Capture authors, several national security bloggers who used to write about the Muslim Brotherhood, everyone else who used to hate Microsoft and might have been interested in a scandal where Microsoft played a central role, and the entire "Free Speech Movement" which is now endorsing the worst censorship. And the central command of this global Internet censorship is, of all people, the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Another central command is the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. The Rockefellers ran the commission that exposed the CIA's crimes in the 1970s. This made them heroes to the anti-government left. They did not actually want to stop the CIA's crimes. They wanted the power of the CIA for themselves. They took it and used it against political competition to their monopolism.
The actual honest anti-government left are the people who were consistently anti-Clinton, anti-Bush, anti-Obama, and anti-whatever this Current Year bullshit is. It is a small number of people who have all been smeared as Right Wing Conspiracy Theorists.
you either get a CIA bullet as a hippie leftist, or you live long enough to see yourself become a far right terrorist (without actually changing anything about yourself)
None of these supposed former champions of freedom on the left ever were anything of the sort. They were just trying to get a foot in the door.
It was never more obvious when the "censorship bad" of KIA1 was thrown out the window multiple times to try and kick T_D posters out.
Because being a Leftist was more important than any other principle, and why the "our one poll said we all are Lefties ackshually." And it will always be that way for anyone who is still on the Left.
Having been one of those people who was booted by Bane after we figured out that one of his mods was a tranny and a convicted child molester, I agree.
Now that is a new piece of lore for me. Did I miss it or was it after KIA2 had already taken off?
Couldn't tell you, I got erased from reddit soon afterwards. It was right after Snap went nuts and banned half of the mods from TD. To this day I still think her account was taken over by a fed or something.
biggest example was Google. throughout 00s they were the giant yet friendly company who could do nothing wrong. they spearheaded the fight against SOPA, advanced free communications and internet search systems, and did a whole bunch of cool and random science projects.
of course, even back then they were manipulating search results to push climate hysteria, and possibly other things. all that boasting of free and open information was really to get people addicted to their ecosystem. All of their lobbying and campaigning was to assert their dominance over the US government.
Big business gonna business.
The biggest opponent of allowing states to tax internet purchases was Amazon. They threatened to pull distribution center deals from states that oppose them, and poured money into state politics.
Once they had distribution centers in something like more than a third of the states, they began to have a competitive disadvantage against other internet retailers- those distribution centers meant that they had a physical Nexus in the state and Amazon purchases would be taxed under the current rules, but other internet retailers who only maintained one or two warehouses nationwide would still be largely exempt.
So they seamlessly pivoted into being one of the biggest advocates for an internet sales tax, to eliminate their competitors advantage. It was never about protecting their customers or doing what was right, it was about what generated the most profits for Amazon.
It was surprising to be very loudly told to fuck off by one of the people who got the Halloween Papers out, one of the Deep Capture authors, several national security bloggers who used to write about the Muslim Brotherhood, everyone else who used to hate Microsoft and might have been interested in a scandal where Microsoft played a central role, and the entire "Free Speech Movement" which is now endorsing the worst censorship. And the central command of this global Internet censorship is, of all people, the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Another central command is the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. The Rockefellers ran the commission that exposed the CIA's crimes in the 1970s. This made them heroes to the anti-government left. They did not actually want to stop the CIA's crimes. They wanted the power of the CIA for themselves. They took it and used it against political competition to their monopolism.
The actual honest anti-government left are the people who were consistently anti-Clinton, anti-Bush, anti-Obama, and anti-whatever this Current Year bullshit is. It is a small number of people who have all been smeared as Right Wing Conspiracy Theorists.
you either get a CIA bullet as a hippie leftist, or you live long enough to see yourself become a far right terrorist (without actually changing anything about yourself)