archive.is/archive.today is not archive.org, and they did it without permission, because they never get permission.

Bill Gates has the best public relations machine money can buy.

• The Nation: Why Bill Gates’s Philanthropy Is a Problem
• Jacobin: Bill Gates’s Philanthropic Giving Is a Racket
• Adam Ruins Everything: Why Billionaire Philanthropy is Not So Selfless
• Citations Needed podcast:
  • Episode 45: The Not-So-Benevolent Billionaire: Bill Gates and Western Media
  • Episode 46: The Not-So-Benevolent Billionaire, Part II - Bill Gates in Africa
  • News Brief: Big Pharma, Bill Gates Spin Against Generic Vaccines for Global South as Biden a No Show
  • News Brief: #VaxLive is a PR Scam So Those Causing Vaccine Inequity Can Pose as Saviors of Global Poor
  • Episode 146: Bill Gates, Bono and the Limits of World Bank and IMF-Approved Celebrity ‘Activism’

Thirty years later, same shit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip

Yeah, it’s a non sequitur given that those firms have always been constituent parts of the US military-spook-industrial complex.. They DGAF about our actual privacy, though they may prefer that we believe that they care.