But when you dig beneath the surface it’s ownership and corporate structure is to put it mildly opaque. Ostensibly PIA (legal name London Trust Media) is a commercial VPN. Mozilla Foundation which receives $300 million annually from Google is another “platinum supporter.” Then there is the super weird and mysterious Private Internet Access. counts Google as a “platinum supporter” whatever that means. No Vancouver is a nice place to raise your children and start an astroturf group that supports the regressive interests of Silicon Valley cyber-libertarians. Very multicultural, sort of like Seattle except without the crazy drug addicts with super-human-Chinese-research-chemical strength swinging shopping carts over their heads. A clean, modern, Pacific rim high tech banking city. What a wholesome looking bunch of progressive-ish political activists! They’re based in Vancouver BC. Today I introduce you to the Google funded group that appears to have been behind virtually every single one of these fake grassroots political attacks. The EU parliament just went through a couple of contentious weeks in which they were overwhelmed with tweets, letters, emails and phone calls opposing Article 13 a section of the Copyright Directive that would have forced companies like Google to police their platforms better for copyright infringement. Last week we published a guest post by Volker Rieck in which he described in detail how a small group of anti-copyright ideologues apparently created a fake grassroots uprising against the EU copyright directive by essentially multiplying their numbers with bots. Who Hacked the EU Copyright Directive Deliberations?
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