I'm very saddened to see that Ross Anderson is a member of the prograt cult. If you're an old hat computer enthusiast, Ross was the guy who went viral back in the early 2000s warning the world about Microsoft Palladium and the globalist attempt to take over your PC in the name of "digital rights management." He threw a spanner in the works of the "Fritz chip" system and forced the industry to instead adopt the much watered down "trusted platform" system that Windows has today. For that era, he was a minor hero.
Today, this man who once wrote very influential screeds likening the Internet to the printing press, condemning censorship in every form, and supporting every technological and ethical aspect of the Hacker Manifesto, is now writing .pdfs for the IEEE where he contrasts free speech with "hate speech" and concludes that deplatforming "legal but undesirable" communities of people is both absolutely necessary but also only worth doing if you can invent some pretext to jail or personally destroy the owners of the platform, because if you don't then the Jewsusers will just return once their city is rebuilt. In other words he doesn't just want censorship, he wants ironclad, government implemented censorship from which no site, no matter how determined, can escape. He's also part of an "educational" group that is stalking the Farms, where in the paper he admits they're scraping the forum so heavily that they're getting every post in near real time, which I'm sure doesn't contribute anything to the various DDoS traffic what with making a billion requests a minute...
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.
I'm very saddened to see that Ross Anderson is a member of the prograt cult. If you're an old hat computer enthusiast, Ross was the guy who went viral back in the early 2000s warning the world about Microsoft Palladium and the globalist attempt to take over your PC in the name of "digital rights management." He threw a spanner in the works of the "Fritz chip" system and forced the industry to instead adopt the much watered down "trusted platform" system that Windows has today. For that era, he was a minor hero.
Today, this man who once wrote very influential screeds likening the Internet to the printing press, condemning censorship in every form, and supporting every technological and ethical aspect of the Hacker Manifesto, is now writing .pdfs for the IEEE where he contrasts free speech with "hate speech" and concludes that deplatforming "legal but undesirable" communities of people is both absolutely necessary but also only worth doing if you can invent some pretext to jail or personally destroy the owners of the platform, because if you don't then the
Jewsusers will just return once their city is rebuilt. In other words he doesn't just want censorship, he wants ironclad, government implemented censorship from which no site, no matter how determined, can escape. He's also part of an "educational" group that is stalking the Farms, where in the paper he admits they're scraping the forum so heavily that they're getting every post in near real time, which I'm sure doesn't contribute anything to the various DDoS traffic what with making a billion requests a minute...I hate the Internet.
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.
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.