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Date: 29 Dec 2022 21:50:26 -0500
From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com>
Subject: Startups and Companies Acquired by IBM
Startups and Companies Acquired by IBM
As a result of acquiring top-notch on-demand startups all over the
world, International Business Machines is steadily gaining prominence.
Having merged, acquired, and absorbed other reputable companies since
IBM’s incorporation, the American Technology MNC operates in 177 countries.
Further, IBM developed a reputation for providing quality services by
acquiring startups around the globe. In 1911, when IBM merged with four
large corporations, Charles Ranlett Flint founded IBM, a technology
company based in New York.
https://www.inventiva.co.in/trends/startups-companies-acquired-ibm/
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| Message-ID: <toljrt$ift7$2@dont-email.me>
Date: 29 Dec 2022 21:53:49 -0500
From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com>
Subject: Courts Won’t Stop The Feds From Deputizing Big Tech—The
People Must
By: Margot Cleveland
The First Amendment, as currently interpreted, lacks the strength to
stop the censorship and other Stasi-esque goals of the deep state.
The release of internal communications in the ongoing series of “Twitter
Files” reveals a government bent on propaganda and censorship—and a Big
Tech industry willing to play along. With each new thread detailing the
internal workings and cozy relationship between the Twitter team and our
government, the political right screams louder of First Amendment
violations.
The First Amendment cannot be the whole answer to the problem, however,
and, in fact, may not have even been transgressed. Americans are right
to be outraged, but the solution doesn’t rest in constitutional claims.
The deepest solution is in a resurgence in the values of free speech and
a free press.
https://thefederalist.com/2022/12/29/courts-wont-stop-the-feds-from-deputizing-big-tech-the-people-must/
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Date: 30 Dec 2022 00:26:09 -0500
From: Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com>
Subject: The ongoing struggle with my ISP
As most of you know, I’ve been at odds with my Internet Service
Provider (ISP) since the company took over the cable franchise and ISP
customers here.
A day after the new company took over, my ability to log into and use
the Telecom Digest server at M.I.T. vanished. It took about a week of
arguing with varying levels of yes-men at the ISP, and a call to the
North Carolina Governor’s office, to get the new owners to lift the
restrictions: kudos to Alex Rosen at Panix.com for his help getting me
set up with a VPN which obviated the problem while I waited for the
political wheel to grind.
Then, on September 4th, my Callcentric VoIP telephone line went dead,
along with my VoIP line to the Hamshack Hotline, which is a VoIP PBX
used by Ham Radio operators to talk about and work together on
emergency communications involving VoIP connections over Amateur Radio
links.
I tried several different “VPN” vendors, none of which made a
difference with the Callcentric or Hamshack Hotline VoIP numbers. Only
Panix, in New York, provided any solutions, but the others were long
on hope and short on results. I went round and round with tech support
at their service numbers, but I eventually realized that all their
advice was designed to keep me waiting until after the next bill was
paid, and so I dropped all of them except for Panix, which still
provides me with value for my money, although I haven’t been able to
figure out how to use their VPN for anything but SSL links.
So, life went on, and I tried to interest various reporters in my
story. Last week, I made a comment on a Facebook group that is used
by other residents of the county I’m in, and I named the ISP owner and
mentioned that my Callcentric lines was still out.
The next day, my Internet connection changed dramatically: the
Callcentric line came back, although Hamshack Hotline is still out,
and the other things I do on the Internet all became harder to use,
less reliable, and more and more erratic by the day.
The company that now owns the local cable franchise obviously pays for
a monitoring service which flagged their name and mine from the
Facebook post. Their kneejerk reaction was to stop blocking
Callcentric, but to take revenge for my criticism by sabotaging web,
email, and search access on my account.
So, I’m putting up with “web site can’t be reached” and “site does not
exist” errors from my web browser, and with repeated failures when
Thunderbird starts up or when it tries to check my mailboxes at the
IMAP servers at Gmail, outlook, and iecc.com. I don’t know what
mechanism they're using, but I’m in need of help with this more
obvious and more vicious method of discouaging public complaints,
because it seems to me to be the next step in an ever-more-arrogant
“pay and shut up” type of corporate mentality.
If you have, or know experts who have, expertise and/or equipment
which I can use to document the deliberate sabotage of the Internet
connection I use to write the Digest, please get in touch.
Bill Horne
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Bill Horne
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