RenkeSiemsDas ging bislang an mir vorbei: #Scam factories als florierender Geschäftszweig von #Kleptopia.
https://www.dw.com/en/how-chinese-mafia-are-running-a-scam-factory-in-myanmar/a-68113480
Da #Wirecard ja nicht mehr da ist, um der #Porno-Industrie zu dienen, muss man eben anders zu Streich kommen. #Paxum heisst das schöne Institut, das auch den Tate-Brüdern gerne hilft. Besitzer ist Anton Postolnikov, Neffe eines #Kreml-Granden, der wo investiert? Trump Media. Wer hängt noch in der Suppe drin? Raiffeisen, die weiterhin groß in Russland unterwegs sind. #Kleptopia und #HumanTrafficking - passt.
Adult webcam platform paid $2.6m into controversial influencer Tristan Tate’s bank account, leaked documents show - ICIJ
ICIJ found Paxum Bank, favored by the porn industry, processed Tate’s transactions until shortly before he and his brother Andrew Tate were charged with rape and human trafficking.
Since it is also posted here again and again that Musk should buy #Elsevier next, after it was such a great success with Twitter: does not need to. The Paypal boys have always been close with the data cartels, #RELX was one of the first investors in #Palantir and they are still cooperating (Thomson Reuters, too). The path from #Brotopia to #Kleptopia was never far and they were always cozy with each other.
Read the book by @SarahLamdan:
Data Cartels: The Companies That Control and Monopolize Our Information - Sarah Lamdan
In our digital world, data is power. Information hoarding businesses reign supreme, using intimidation, aggression, and force to maintain influence and control. Sarah Lamdan brings us into the unregulated underworld of these data cartels, demonstrating how the entities mining, commodifying, and selling our data and informational resources perpetuate social inequalities and threaten the democratic sharing of knowledge. Just a few companies dominate most of our critical informational resources. Often self-identifying as data analytics or business solutions operations, they supply the digital lifeblood that flows through the circulatory system of the internet. With their control over data, they can prevent the free flow of information, masterfully exploiting outdated information and privacy laws and curating online information in a way that amplifies digital racism and targets marginalized communities. They can also distribute private information to predatory entities. Alarmingly, everything they're doing is perfectly legal. In this book, Lamdan contends that privatization and tech exceptionalism have prevented us from creating effective legal regulation. This in turn has allowed oversized information oligopolies to coalesce. In addition to specific legal and market-based solutions, Lamdan calls for treating information like a public good and creating digital infrastructure that supports our democratic ideals.
::Having just finished reading #kleptopia, this strikes a chord. The infection of the global power structures by the criminals who took over the remnants of the USSR is still raging.
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RT @carolecadwalla
One month before Russia invaded Ukraine, I stood trial at the High Court. And now I wait, in purgatory, to be judged.
But I believe this trial and the silence around it - & all the Kremlin's men - has revealed something profoundly…
https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/1509612965011804162
Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) on X
One month before Russia invaded Ukraine, I stood trial at the High Court. And now I wait, in purgatory, to be judged. But I believe this trial and the silence around it - & all the Kremlin's men - has revealed something profoundly rotten at the heart of the British state. 1/